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Up-set

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Mathematics Area of mathematics Combinatorics Extremal set theory Set family Boolean lattice
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An up-set is a family U such that A∈U and A⊆B imply B∈U.
An up-set is upward closed under inclusion: if A belongs and A⊆B, then B belongs. This is the Boolean-lattice case of upper and lower sets.

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