On supersaturation for oddtown and eventown
Abstract
We study the supersaturation problems of oddtown and eventown. Given a family of subsets of an element set, let denote the number of distinct pairs for which is odd. We show that if consists of odd-sized subsets, then , which is tight when . This disproves a conjecture by O'Neill on the supersaturation problem of oddtown. For the supersaturation problem of eventown, we show that for large enough , if consists of even-sized subsets, then for any positive integer . This partially proves a conjecture by O'Neill on the supersaturation problem of eventown. Previously, the correctness of this conjecture was only verified for and . We further provide a twice weaker lower bound in this conjecture for eventown, that is for general and by using discrete Fourier analysis. Finally, some asymptotic results for the lower bounds of are given when is large for both problems.
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@article{arxiv.2302.05586,
title = {On supersaturation for oddtown and eventown},
author = {Xin Wei and Yuhao Zhao and Xiande Zhang and Gennian Ge},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05586},
year = {2023}
}
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16 pages, no figure