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Orthogonal Families of Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John Marica
John Marica*
Affiliation:
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
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In this note we answer in the affirmative the following question.

If S is a finite family of sets such that each subset of a member of S also belongs to S, is it possible to arrange the sets in pairs so that the first member of the pair is contained in the complement of the second member?

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 573
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

References

1. Marica, J. and Schönheim, J., Differences of sets and a problem of Graham, Canad. Math. Bull. (5), 12 (1969), 635-637.Google Scholar