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A003182 Dedekind numbers: inequivalent monotone Boolean functions of n or fewer variables, or antichains of subsets of an n-set.

2, 3, 5, 10, 30, 210, 16353, 490013148, 1392195548889993358, 789204635842035040527740846300252680

Offset: 0

NP-equivalence classes of unate Boolean functions of n or fewer variables.
Also the number of simple games with n players in minimal winning form up to isomorphism. - Fabián Riquelme, Mar 13 2018
The labeled case is A000372. - Gus Wiseman, Feb 23 2019
First differs from A348260(n + 1) at a(5) = 210, A348260(6) = 233. - Gus Wiseman, Nov 28 2021
Pawelski & Szepietowski show that a(n) = A001206(n) (mod 2) and that a(9) = 6 (mod 210). - Charles R Greathouse IV, Feb 16 2023

			From _Gus Wiseman_, Feb 20 2019: (Start)
Non-isomorphic representatives of the a(0) = 2 through a(3) = 10 antichains:
  {}    {}     {}         {}
  {{}}  {{}}   {{}}       {{}}
        {{1}}  {{1}}      {{1}}
               {{1,2}}    {{1,2}}
               {{1},{2}}  {{1},{2}}
                          {{1,2,3}}
                          {{1},{2,3}}
                          {{1},{2},{3}}
                          {{1,3},{2,3}}
                          {{1,2},{1,3},{2,3}}
(End)

I. Anderson, Combinatorics of Finite Sets. Oxford Univ. Press, 1987, p. 38.
Arocha, Jorge Luis (1987) "Antichains in ordered sets" [ In Spanish ]. Anales del Instituto de Matematicas de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 27: 1-21.
J. Berman, Free spectra of 3-element algebras, in R. S. Freese and O. C. Garcia, editors, Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory (Puebla, 1982), Lect. Notes Math. Vol. 1004, 1983.
G. Birkhoff, Lattice Theory. American Mathematical Society, Colloquium Publications, Vol. 25, 3rd ed., Providence, RI, 1967, p. 63.
L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 273.
M. A. Harrison, Introduction to Switching and Automata Theory. McGraw Hill, NY, 1965, p. 188.
D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 4A, Section 7.1.1, p. 79.
W. F. Lunnon, The IU function: the size of a free distributive lattice, pp. 173-181 of D. J. A. Welsh, editor, Combinatorial Mathematics and Its Applications. Academic Press, NY, 1971.
Saburo Muroga, Threshold Logic and Its Applications. Wiley, NY, 1971, p. 38, Table 2.3.2. - Row 13.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
D. H. Wiedemann, personal communication.

K. S. Brown, Dedekind's problem
Aniruddha Biswas and Palash Sarkar, Counting Unate and Monotone Boolean Functions Under Restrictions of Balancedness and Non-Degeneracy, J. Int. Seq. (2025) Vol. 28, Art. No. 25.3.4. See pp. 2, 14.
Patrick De Causmaecker and Stefan De Wannemacker, On the number of antichains of sets in a finite universe, arXiv:1407.4288 [math.CO], 2014.
Patrick De Causmaecker and Lennart Van Hirtum, Solving systems of equations on antichains for the computation of the ninth Dedekind Number, arXiv:2405.20904 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 4.
Liviu Ilinca and Jeff Kahn, Counting maximal antichains and independent sets, arXiv:1202.4427 [math.CO], 2012; Order 30.2 (2013): 427-435.
J. L. King, Brick tiling and monotone Boolean functions
D. J. Kleitman, On Dedekind's problem: The number of monotone Boolean functions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 1969 677-682.
D. J. Kleitman and G. Markowsky, On Dedekind's problem: the number of isotone Boolean functions. II, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 213 (1975), 373-390.
Sascha Kurz, Competitive learning of monotone Boolean functions, arXiv:1401.8135 [cs.DS], 2014.
C. L. Mallows, Emails to N. J. A. Sloane, Jun-Jul 1991
Mikaël Monet and Dan Olteanu, Towards Deterministic Decomposable Circuits for Safe Queries, 2018.
S. Muroga, Threshold Logic and Its Applications, Wiley, NY, 1971 [Annotated scans of a few pages]
Bartlomiej Pawelski, On the number of inequivalent monotone Boolean functions of 8 variables, arXiv:2108.13997 [math.CO], 2021. See Table 2 p. 2.
Bartlomiej Pawelski, On the number of inequivalent monotone Boolean functions of 9 variables, arXiv:2305.06346 [math.CO], 2023.
Bartłomiej Pawelski, Counting and generating monotone Boolean functions, Doctoral Diss., Univ. Gdańsk, (Poland, 2024). See pp. 12, 24, 34-35, 40, 49-50.
Bartlomiej Pawelski and Andrzej Szepietowski, Divisibility properties of Dedekind numbers, arXiv:2302.04615 [math.CO], 2023.
Tamon Stephen and Timothy Yusun, Counting inequivalent monotone Boolean functions, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 167 (2014), 15-24.
Tamon Stephen and Timothy Yusun, Counting inequivalent monotone Boolean functions, arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4623 [cs.DS], 2012.
Andrzej Szepietowski, Fixes of permutations acting on monotone Boolean functions, arXiv:2205.03868 [math.CO], 2022. See p. 17.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Boolean Function.
Gus Wiseman, Sequences enumerating clutters, antichains, hypertrees, and hyperforests, organized by labeling, spanning, and allowance of singletons.
Index entries for sequences related to Boolean functions

Cf. A000372, A007153, A006602, A007411.
Cf. A006126, A014466, A261005, A293606, A293993, A304996, A305000, A305857, A306505, A319721, A320449, A321679.
Cf. A007363, A046165, A306007, A307249, A326358, A326363.

a(n) = A306505(n) + 1. - Gus Wiseman, Jul 02 2019

a(7) added by Timothy Yusun, Sep 27 2012
a(8) from Pawelski added by Michel Marcus, Sep 01 2021
a(9) from Pawelski added by Michel Marcus, May 11 2023

A306505 Number of non-isomorphic antichains of nonempty subsets of {1,...,n}.

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1, 2, 4, 9, 29, 209, 16352, 490013147, 1392195548889993357, 789204635842035040527740846300252679

Offset: 0

Gus Wiseman, Feb 20 2019

The spanning case is A006602 or A261005. The labeled case is A014466.
From Petros Hadjicostas, Apr 22 2020: (Start)
a(n) is the number of "types" of log-linear hierarchical models on n factors in the sense of Colin Mallows (see the emails to N. J. A. Sloane).
Two hierarchical models on n factors belong to the same "type" iff one can obtained from the other by a permutation of the factors.
The total number of hierarchical log-linear models on n factors (in all "types") is given by A014466(n) = A000372(n) - 1.
The name of a hierarchical log-linear model on factors is based on the collection of maximal interaction terms, which must be an antichain (by the definition of maximality).
In his example on p. 1, Colin Mallows groups the A014466(3) = 19 hierarchical log-linear models on n = 3 factors x, y, z into a(3) = 9 types. See my example below for more details. (End)
First differs from A348260(n + 1) - 1 at a(5) = 209, A348260(6) - 1 = 232. - Gus Wiseman, Nov 28 2021

			Non-isomorphic representatives of the a(0) = 1 through a(3) = 9 antichains:
  {}  {}     {}         {}
      {{1}}  {{1}}      {{1}}
             {{1,2}}    {{1,2}}
             {{1},{2}}  {{1},{2}}
                        {{1,2,3}}
                        {{1},{2,3}}
                        {{1},{2},{3}}
                        {{1,3},{2,3}}
                        {{1,2},{1,3},{2,3}}
From _Petros Hadjicostas_, Apr 23 2020: (Start)
We expand _Colin Mallows_'s example from p. 1 of his list of 1991 emails. For n = 3, we have the following a(3) = 9 "types" of log-linear hierarchical models:
Type 1: ( ), Type 2: (x), (y), (z), Type 3: (x,y), (y,z), (z,x), Type 4: (x,y,z), Type 5: (xy), (yz), (zx), Type 6: (xy,z), (yz,x), (zx,y), Type 7: (xy,xz), (yx,yz), (zx,zy), Type 8: (xy,yz,zx), Type 9: (xyz).
For each model, the name only contains the maximal terms. See p. 36 in Wickramasinghe (2008) for the full description of the 19 models.
Strictly speaking, I should have used set notation (rather than parentheses) for the name of each model, but I follow the tradition of the theory of log-linear models. In addition, in an interaction term such as xy, the order of the factors is irrelevant.
Models in the same type essentially have similar statistical properties.
For example, models in Type 7 have the property that two factors are conditionally independent of one another given each level (= category) of the third factor.
Models in Type 6 are such that two factors are jointly independent from the third one. (End)

C. L. Mallows, Emails to N. J. A. Sloane, Jun-Jul 1991, p. 1.
R. I. P. Wickramasinghe, Topics in log-linear models, Master of Science thesis in Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2008, p. 36.
Gus Wiseman, Sequences enumerating clutters, antichains, hypertrees, and hyperforests, organized by labeling, spanning, and allowance of singletons.

Cf. A000372, A003182, A006126, A006602, A014466, A261005, A293606, A293993, A304996, A305000, A305001, A305857, A317674, A319721, A320449, A321679.

Cf. A007363, A306007, A307249, A326358, A326359, A326360, A326363.

a(n) = A003182(n) - 1.

Partial sums of A006602 minus 1.

a(8) from A003182. - Bartlomiej Pawelski, Nov 27 2022

a(9) from A003182. - Dmitry I. Ignatov, Nov 27 2023

A381776 Empty polygon numbers: a(n) is the smallest number of points in the plane (with no three of them collinear) such that an empty convex n-gon cannot be avoided.

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3, 5, 10, 30

Offset: 3

Paolo Xausa, Mar 07 2025

An empty n-gon does not contain any points (also called n-hole).
This problem was posed by Erdös and Szekeres (1935), generalizing on a result by Esther Klein.
For n >= 7, such n-gons can be avoided (this result is due to Horton, 1983).
The case for n = 6 was solved by Heule and Scheucher (2024).

P. Erdös and G. Szekeres, A Combinatorial Problem in Geometry, Compositio Mathematica, Volume 2 (1935), pp. 463-470 (alternative source).
Marijn J. H. Heule and Manfred Scheucher, Happy Ending: An Empty Hexagon in Every Set of 30 Points, arXiv:2403.00737 [cs.CG], 2024.
J. D. Horton, Sets with No Empty Convex 7-Gons, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, Vol. 26 Issue 4, 1983, pp. 482-484.
PurpleMind, The Miracle Solution to This 100 Year Old Geometry Problem, YouTube video, 2025.
Bernardo Subercaseaux, Wojciech Nawrocki, James Gallicchio, Cayden Codel, Mario Carneiro and Marijn J. H. Heule, Formal Verification of the Empty Hexagon Number, arXiv:2403.17370 [cs.CG], 2024.
Wikipedia, Happy ending problem.

Cf. A003182, A003186, A330333, A348260.

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A003182 Dedekind numbers: inequivalent monotone Boolean functions of n or fewer variables, or antichains of subsets of an n-set.

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A306505 Number of non-isomorphic antichains of nonempty subsets of {1,...,n}.

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A381776 Empty polygon numbers: a(n) is the smallest number of points in the plane (with no three of them collinear) such that an empty convex n-gon cannot be avoided.

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