We use a lower bound on the number of small sets in an idea1 to show that for each unionclosed family of n sets there exists an element which belongs to at least of them, provided n is large enough.
Union-closed families of sets
✍ Scribed by Balla, Igor; Bollobás, Béla; Eccles, Tom
- Book ID
- 120296979
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 120
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0097-3165
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