A short proof of the Hilton-Milner Theorem
Combinatorics
2025-11-20 v4
Abstract
We give a short and relatively elementary proof of the Hilton-Milner Theorem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.02513,
title = {A short proof of the Hilton-Milner Theorem},
author = {Denys Bulavka and Russ Woodroofe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.02513},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5 pages; v2 adds ref to preprint arXiv:2411.03674 (arXived 2 days after the our initial preprint) and has other minor fixes; v3 adds easy proof of uniqueness; v4 has minor changes for publication