 Binomial-shadow arithmetic lemma (source code)

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= Binomial-shadow arithmetic lemma

Let $f_r(m)$ be the lower-shadow size prescribed by the binomial representation in the <Kruskal-Katona theorem>. Then
$$
f_r(a+b)\leq\max\{f_r(a),b\}+f_{r-1}(b).
$$
Induction using <Pascal's identity> proves the inequality and drives the standard ground-set induction for the theorem.

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