(1) Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, 29208 Columbia, SC, USA;(2) Department of Mathematics, Swarthmore College, 19081 Swarthmore, PA, USA
Abstract:
We prove that the Boolean lattice of all subsets of an n-set can be partitioned into chains of size four if and only if n9.Research supported in part by N.S.F. grant DMS-8401281.Research supported in part by N.S.F. grant DMS-8406451.