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A poset or partially ordered set is a set endowed with a partial order, meaning a binary relation $\leq$ which is reflexive ($x \leq x$ for all $x$), antisymmetric ($x\leq y$ and $y\leq x$ implies $x=y$), and transitive ($x\leq y$ and $y\leq z$ implies $x \leq z$).

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Extending subsets to supersets in different ways

The answer is no. Here is a list of sets $A_i$ and $B_i$ which fails. 12, 1234 23, 1235 13, 1236 14, 1245 25, 2356 36, 1346 45, 1456 56, 2456 46, 3456 The failure can be seen by drawing the pictu …
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Enumerative characterisation of boolean lattices

Define a ground set $X$ of size $2^{n-1}$. Now choose $2^{n-1}-(n-1)$ subsets of $X$, each of size at least 2, such that the sum of their sizes is $(n-2)2^{n-1}+2$ (so the average size is slightly mo …
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