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Chinese TST 2008 P4

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April 3, 2008
inductioncombinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

Prove that for arbitary positive integer n4 n\geq 4, there exists a permutation of the subsets that contain at least two elements of the set G_{n} \equal{} \{1,2,3,\cdots,n\}: P_{1},P_{2},\cdots,P_{2^n \minus{} n \minus{} 1} such that |P_{i}\cap P_{i \plus{} 1}| \equal{} 2,i \equal{} 1,2,\cdots,2^n \minus{} n \minus{} 2.