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Logical Aspects of Combinatorial Duality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

T. A. McKee*
Affiliation:
Wright State UniversityDayton, Ohio
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Abstract

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D. R. Woodall has introduced closely-related notions of Menger and König duals which can be applied to a broad range of combinatorial contexts. The present paper considers these two notions for finite ground sets in terms of syntactic duality principles. Specific graph-theoretic interpretations are cited.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1984

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