Number Theory
The number-theoretic theorem of Abouabdillah is about antichains in the partially ordered set EN consisting of the positive integers in the interval, partially ordered by divisibility. With this partial order, an antichain is a set of integers within this interval, such that no member of this set is a divisor of any other member. It possible to prove using ideas related to Dilworth's theorem that the maximum number of elements in an antichain of E2n is exactly n: there exists an antichain of this size consisting of all the numbers in the subinterval, so the maximum size of an antichain is at least n. However, there are only n odd numbers within the interval, for each odd number c in this interval at most one number of the form 2kc may belong to any antichain, and every number in the interval has this form for some c, so the maximum size of an antichain is also at most n.
Abouabdillah's theorem characterizes more precisely the numbers that may belong to an antichain of maximum size in E2n. Specifically, if x is any integer in the interval, decompose x as the product of a power of two and an odd number: x = 2kc, where c is odd. Then, according to Abouabdillah's theorem, there exists an antichain of cardinality n in E2n that contains x if and only if 2n < 3k + 1c.
The smallest value in any maximum antichain of E2n is at least 2k, where 3k + 1 is the first power of three that is greater than 2n, as had been posed as a problem by Paul Erdős (1937) and solved by Emma Lehmer (1939). Lehmer's solution immediately implies the special case of Abouabdillah's theorem for c = 1. Abouabdillah's theorem generalizes this solution to all values within the given interval.
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