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Frankl’s Conjecture and the Dual Covering Property

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We have proved that the Frankl’s Conjecture is true for the class of finite posets satisfying the dual covering property.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Pune, Pune, 411 007, India

    R. S. Shewale, Vinayak Joshi & V. S. Kharat

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This research was supported by the Board of College and University Development, University of Pune, via the projects BCUD/494 and SC-66.

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Shewale, R.S., Joshi, V. & Kharat, V.S. Frankl’s Conjecture and the Dual Covering Property. Graphs and Combinatorics 25, 115–121 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-008-0820-x

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