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Two-block extremisers for the cross-Sperner inequality

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Choose disjoint subsets K1​,K2​⊆[n] of size k≥1 with 2k≤n. Let A consist of subsets containing all of K1​ and none of K2​; let B consist of subsets omitting at least one point of K1​ and containing at least one point of K2​. These form a cross-Sperner family pair, with sizes 2n−2k and (2k−1)22n−2k. Their square roots sum to 2n/2, proving sharpness of the Cross-Sperner inequality. The free coordinates outside the two blocks account for the factor 2n−2k.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2017 / iii / Paper 109 / 3 / iii / Solution

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