New Bounds for Union-free Families of Sets

نویسندگان

  • Don Coppersmith
  • James B. Shearer
چکیده

Following Frankl and F uredi [1] we say a family, F , of subsets of an n-set is weakly union-free if F does not contain four distinct sets A, B, C, D with A[B = C [D. If in addition A[B = A[C implies B = C we say F is strongly union-free. Let f(n) (g(n)) be the maximum size of strongly (weakly) union-free families. In this paper we prove the following new bounds on f and g: 2 f(n) 2 and g(n) 2. AMS Subject Classi cation. 05B10

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Electr. J. Comb.

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998