Zentralblatt MATH
Publications of (and about) Paul Erdös
Zbl.No: 281.04002
Autor: Erdös, Paul; Kleitman, Daniel J.
Title: Extremal problems among subsets of a set. (In English)
Source: Discrete Math. 8, 281-294 (1974).
Review: This paper is a review of results and progress in the study of extremal problems on collection of subsets of a finite set, as of the spring of 1970, as presented at the 1970 Chapel Hill Conference. A typical problem might be given a collection of subsets of an n element set such that no two members have exactly k or fewer elements in common, how large can the collection be? Much has been accomplished in this area since 1970. A more recent review is contained in the article by G.O.H.Katona in Combinatorics, Part 2 , Proc. Adv. Stud. Inst., Breukelen, 13-42 (1974; Zbl 298.05142) on Extremal problems for hypergraphs; a paper by C. Greene and D.J.Kleitman in MAA Studies in Mathematics 17, Stud. in Combinatorics 22-79 (1978; Zbl 409.05012) reviews some of the methods that have been developed for such problems.
Classif.: * 04A20 Combinatorial set theory
05A05 Combinatorial choice problems
04-02 Research monographs (set theory)
05-02 Research monographs (combinatorics)
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