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For questions about the definition or meaning of terms used within Operations Research. Do not use this tag for questions about notation.

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Is there a concept of shrinking the consideration set?

You do need to be careful of applying this "we can disregard" idea more than once. Suppose S contains two subsets, T and U. By some argument, typically symmetry, you might be able to argue that a) if …
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