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symmetric chain

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symmetric chain [sə¦me·trik ′chān]
(mathematics)
A sequence of subsets of a set ofnelements such that each member of the sequence is a subset of the next one, each member of the sequence has a cardinality one greater than that of the previous member, and the sum of the cardinalities of the first and last members of the sequence equalsn.


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