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TR05-023 | 16th February 2005 00:00

On k-term DNF with largest number of prime implicants

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TR05-023
Authors: Robert H. Sloan, Balázs Szörényi, György Turán
Publication: 21st February 2005 16:41
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Abstract:

It is known that a k-term DNF can have at most 2^k ? 1 prime implicants and this bound is sharp. We determine all k-term DNF having the maximal number of prime implicants. It is shown that a DNF is maximal if and only if it corresponds to a non-repeating decision tree with literals assigned to the leaves in a certain way. We also mention some related results and open problems.



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