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Cross-Sperner family

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Two set families A,B are cross-Sperner when no member of either is a subset of a member of the other, including equality. Thus A∩B=∅. Neither family need itself be an antichain. On the Boolean lattice of subsets of [n], the Cross-Sperner inequality bounds ∣A∣​+∣B∣​ by 2n/2.

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