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Repeated columns and an old chestnut

Combinatorics 2013-05-06 v1

Abstract

Let t1t\ge 1 be a given integer. Let F{\cal F} be a family of subsets of [m]={1,2,,m}[m]=\{1,2,\ldots,m\}. Assume that for every pair of disjoint sets S,T[m]S,T\subset [m] with S=T=k|S|=|T|=k, there do not exist 2t2t sets in F{\cal F} where tt subsets of F{\cal F} contain SS and are disjoint from TT and tt subsets of F{\cal F} contain TT and are disjoint from SS. We show that F|{\cal F}| is O(mk)O(m^{k}). Our main new ingredient is allowing, during the inductive proof, multisets of subsets of [m][m] where the multiplicity of a given set is bounded by t1t-1. We use a strong stability result of Anstee and Keevash. This is further evidence for a conjecture of Anstee and Sali. These problems can be stated in the language of matrices Let tMt\cdot M denote tt copies of the matrix MM concatenated together. We have established the conjecture for those configurations tFt\cdot F for any k×2k\times 2 (0,1)-matrix FF.

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@article{arxiv.1305.0603,
  title  = {Repeated columns and an old chestnut},
  author = {Richard P. Anstee and Linyuan Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0603},
  year   = {2013}
}

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11 pages

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