Hostname: page-component-5d84bcc8dc-4crpj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-09-04T08:54:49.049Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

COUNTING UNIONS OF SCHREIER SETS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2023

KEVIN BEANLAND*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450, USA
DMITRIY GOROVOY
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland e-mail: dimgor2003@gmail.com
JĘDRZEJ HODOR
Affiliation:
Theoretical Computer Science Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland e-mail: jedrzej.hodor@gmail.com
DANIIL HOMZA
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland e-mail: daniil.homza.work@gmail.com

Abstract

A subset of positive integers F is a Schreier set if it is nonempty and $|F|\leqslant \min F$ (here $|F|$ is the cardinality of F). For each positive integer k, we define $k\mathcal {S}$ as the collection of all the unions of at most k Schreier sets. Also, for each positive integer n, let $(k\mathcal {S})^n$ be the collection of all sets in $k\mathcal {S}$ with maximum element equal to n. It is well known that the sequence $(|(1\mathcal {S})^n|)_{n=1}^\infty $ is the Fibonacci sequence. In particular, the sequence satisfies a linear recurrence. We show that the sequence $(|(k\mathcal {S})^n|)_{n=1}^\infty $ satisfies a linear recurrence for every positive k.

Information

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable