Definition 13 (UV-compression). Let U,V⊂X with |U|=|V|, U∩V=∅ and max⁡V>max⁡U. We define the UV-compression as follows: for A⊂X,

CUV(A)={A∪U−Vif V⊂A, U∩A=∅Aotherwise,

and for A⊂X(r), set

CUV(A)={CUV(A):A∈A}∪{A∈A:CUV∈A}.