Odd-Sunflowers
Combinatorics
2024-03-22 v2
Abstract
Extending the notion of sunflowers, we call a family of at least two sets an odd-sunflower if every element of the underlying set is contained in an odd number of sets or in none of them. It follows from the Erd\H os--Szemer\'edi conjecture, recently proved by Naslund and Sawin, that there is a constant such that every family of subsets of an -element set that contains no odd-sunflower consists of at most sets. We construct such families of size at least . We also characterize minimal odd-sunflowers of triples.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.16701,
title = {Odd-Sunflowers},
author = {Peter Frankl and János Pach and Dömötör Pálvölgyi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16701},
year = {2024}
}