Sperner family
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after Emanuel Sperner.
Noun[edit]
Sperner family (plural Sperner families)
- (combinatorics) A family F of subsets of a finite set E in which none of the sets contains another; or, equivalently, an antichain in the inclusion lattice over the power set of E.
- Synonyms: clutter, Sperner system