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{
"title": "On Representatives of Subsets",
"author_as_published": "P. Hall",
"author": "Philip Hall",
"journal": "Journal of the London Mathematical Society",
"series": "first",
"volume": 10,
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"issue": 1,
"year": 1935,
"issue_date": "1935-01",
"printed_pages": "26–30",
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"doi": "10.1112/jlms/s1-10.37.26",
"received_date_as_printed": "1934-04-23",
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"institutional_index_description": "Dartmouth Mathematics 38, Spring 2012, explicitly links P Hall 1935 separately from M Hall 1948",
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"last_page_boundary": "Hall text ends above the Davenport title; Hall Rado footnote remains below. The opening Davenport material is preserved in the PDF but is outside this source proof scope.",
"visual_reading": "All five original pages inspected at original image detail from 200 dpi renders; printed p.29 also checked at 350 dpi. Existing text layer used only for navigation; no new OCR.",
"proof_scope": "Five complete elementary components: forced-intersection lemma, Theorems 1–3, and equal positive finite block corollary. The Rado 1933 ancillary remark remains an unproved historical pointer.",
"essential_external_theorem_inputs": [],
"background_inputs": [
"Finite counting",
"Induction on a finite integer",
"Finite selection from nonempty sets"
],
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"printed_page": 29,
"kind": "notation mismatch",
"detail": "Theorem 2 display names its indexed intersection M, then prose uses M_i; the reconstruction consistently defines M_i."
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"detail": "The original identifies 26 April 1934 as read, although Oxford metadata calls it revision received."
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"compilation_expansions": [
"Shortest simple index chain and complete injectivity check for the source exchange.",
"Explicit separation of indexed assignments from their underlying ranges.",
"The printed rho>=0 endpoint is retained; m=0 is the elementary empty-system extension.",
"Necessity of Theorems 2 and 3 and symmetry of Theorem 3 are made explicit.",
"The graph formulation is translated directly inside the Theorem 1 proof.",
"The equal-block counting step requires and uses positive finite block size."
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