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Reimer's Inequality on a Finite Distributive Lattice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2013

CLIFFORD SMYTH
CLIFFORD SMYTH*
Affiliation:
Mathematics and Statistics Department, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA (e-mail: cdsmyth@uncg.edu)
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Abstract

We generalize Reimer's Inequality [6] (a.k.a. the BKR Inequality or the van den Berg–Kesten Conjecture [1]) to the setting of finite distributive lattices.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , July 2013 , pp. 612 - 621
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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