Profile polytopes of some classes of families (Q2448967)

Let \(f_{k}\) be the number of \(k\)-sets in a family \(\mathcal{F}\) of subsets of the set \([n].\) Then \((f_{0},f_{1},\dots,f_{n})\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) is the profile vector of \(\mathcal{F.}\) A point \(P\) of \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) is called an extreme point of a convex hull of a finite set \(\Lambda\) if it is not a convex combination of other points in \(\Lambda .\) In the paper the author introduces the notion of \(k\)-antichainpair families and determines the extreme points of the set of their profile vectors. Using this result the extreme points of some other classes of families, e.g., complement-free Sperner families, self-complementary \(k\)-Sperner families, are described as well.