Improved inclusion-exclusion identities via closure operators
Klaus Dohmen
Abstract
Let (Av)v ∈ V be a finite family of sets. We establish an improved inclusion-exclusion identity for each closure operator on the power set of V having the unique base property. The result generalizes three improvements of the inclusion-exclusion principle as well as Whitney's broken circuit theorem on the chromatic polynomial of a graph.
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