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A Complete Characterization Of Maximal Symmetric Difference-Free Families On {1,…N}., Travis Gerarde Buck

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Prior work in the field of set theory has looked at the properties of union-free families. This thesis investigates families based on a different set operation, the symmetricc difference. It provides a complete characterization of maximal symmetric differencefree families of subsets of {1, . . . n}