@InProceedings{moran_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.70, author = {Moran, Shay and Rashtchian, Cyrus}, title = {{Shattered Sets and the Hilbert Function}}, booktitle = {41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016)}, pages = {70:1--70:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-016-3}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {58}, editor = {Faliszewski, Piotr and Muscholl, Anca and Niedermeier, Rolf}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.70}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-64814}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.70}, annote = {Keywords: VC dimension, shattered sets, sandwich theorem, Hilbert function, polynomial method, linear programming, Chvatal's conjecture, downward-closed sets} }