A326359 Number of maximal antichains of nonempty subsets of {1..n}.

1, 1, 2, 6, 28, 375, 31745, 123805913

Offset: 0

Author

Gus Wiseman, Jul 01 2019

Keywords

• nonn
• more

Comments

A set system (set of sets) is an antichain if no element is a subset of any other.

Examples

			The a(0) = 1 through a(4) = 28 antichains:
  {}   {1}    {12}      {123}           {1234}
              {1}{2}    {1}{23}         {1}{234}
                        {2}{13}         {2}{134}
                        {3}{12}         {3}{124}
                        {1}{2}{3}       {4}{123}
                        {12}{13}{23}    {1}{2}{34}
                                        {1}{3}{24}
                                        {1}{4}{23}
                                        {2}{3}{14}
                                        {2}{4}{13}
                                        {3}{4}{12}
                                        {1}{2}{3}{4}
                                        {12}{134}{234}
                                        {13}{124}{234}
                                        {14}{123}{234}
                                        {23}{124}{134}
                                        {24}{123}{134}
                                        {34}{123}{124}
                                        {1}{23}{24}{34}
                                        {2}{13}{14}{34}
                                        {3}{12}{14}{24}
                                        {4}{12}{13}{23}
                                        {12}{13}{14}{234}
                                        {12}{23}{24}{134}
                                        {13}{23}{34}{124}
                                        {14}{24}{34}{123}
                                        {123}{124}{134}{234}
                                        {12}{13}{14}{23}{24}{34}
		

Links

• Dmitry I. Ignatov, On the Number of Maximal Antichains in Boolean Lattices for n up to 7. Lobachevskii J. Math., 44 (2023), 137-146.

Crossrefs

Antichains of nonempty sets are A014466.

Minimal covering antichains are A046165.

Maximal intersecting antichains are A007363.

Maximal antichains of sets are A326358.

Cf. A000372, A003182, A006126, A006602, A014466, A058891, A261005, A305000, A305844, A307249, A326360, A326362, A326363.

Programs

Mathematica

stableSets[u_,Q_]:=If[Length[u]==0,{{}},With[{w=First[u]},Join[stableSets[DeleteCases[u,w],Q],Prepend[#,w]&/@stableSets[DeleteCases[u,r_/;r==w||Q[r,w]||Q[w,r]],Q]]]];
fasmax[y_]:=Complement[y,Union@@(Most[Subsets[#]]&/@y)];
Table[Length[fasmax[stableSets[Subsets[Range[n],{1,n}],SubsetQ]]],{n,0,5}]

Formula

For n > 0, a(n) = A326358(n) - 1.

Extensions

a(6) from Andrew Howroyd, Aug 14 2019

a(7) from Dmitry I. Ignatov, Oct 12 2021