Counting sunflowers with restricted matching number
Abstract
For a family , a subset is called a \textit{matching} of size~ if the sets are pairwise disjoint. The \textit{matching number} of , denoted by , is the largest integer~ for which such a matching exists. is said to be a \textit{-uniform sunflower} with \textit{petals}, if there exists a core set contained in every and are pairwise disjoint, for . Let denote the -uniform sunflower with petals and the core set of size . The \textit{codegree} of in , denoted by , is defined as . Let the \textit{-norm} of be . For sufficiently large , we determine the maximum -norm and the maximum number of sunflowers for a family with matching number . These results can be viewed as a Tur\'an-type problem (specifically ) and a generalization of the Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture. Furthermore, for the case , we establish a linear threshold for .
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@article{arxiv.2604.21855,
title = {Counting sunflowers with restricted matching number},
author = {Haixiang Zhang and Mengyu Cao and Mei Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.21855},
year = {2026}
}
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17 pages