On a problem of Kleitman and West (Q1182891)

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On a problem of Kleitman and West
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    On a problem of Kleitman and West (English)
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    28 June 1992
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    A discrete isoperimetric problem closely related to Kruskal-Katona's does not have a nested family of solution sets. The combinatorial techniques do not work without that property. In this paper the K-W problem is simplified by stabilization and a continuous limit of the simplified problem is found and solved by variational methods. It is shown that a representative sample may be embedded in a variant of the continuous problem for which the same variational argument gives the exact solution.
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    discrete isoperimetric problem
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    stabilization
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