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Non-trivial $r$-wise agreeing families

Combinatorics 2024-12-10 v3

Abstract

A family of subsets of [n][n] is rr-wise agreeing if for any rr sets from the family there is an element xx that is either contained in all or contained in none of the rr sets. The study of such families is motivated by questions in discrete optimization. In this paper, we determine the size of the largest non-trivial rr-wise agreeing family. This can be seen as a generalization of the classical Brace-Daykin theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2404.14178,
  title  = {Non-trivial $r$-wise agreeing families},
  author = {Peter Frankl and Andrey Kupavskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14178},
  year   = {2024}
}