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  • Authors:
  • Jerrold R. Griggs;Gyula O. H. Katona

  • Affiliations:
  • University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA;Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We survey results concerning the maximum size of a family F of subsets of an n-element set such that a certain configuration is avoided. When F avoids a chain of size two, this is just Sperner's theorem. Here we give bounds on how large F can be such that no four distinct sets A,B,C,D@?F satisfy A@?B, C@?B, C@?D. In this case, the maximum size satisfies (n@?n2@?)(1+1n+@W(1n^2))=