Structured Sunflowers
Abstract
We call an infinite structure sunflowerable if whenever is isomorphic to with underlying set , consisting of finite sets of bounded size, there is an such that is a sunflower and is isomorphic to . We give sufficient conditions on to show that is sunflowerable. These conditions allow us to show that several well-known structures are sunflowerable and give a complete characterization of the countable linear orderings which are sunflowerable. We show that a sunflowerable structure must be indivisible. This allows us to show that any Fra\"iss\'e limit which has the 3-disjoint amalgamation property and a single unary type must be indivisible. In addition to studying sunflowerability of infinite structures, we also consider an analogous property of an age which we call the sunflower property. We show that any sunflowerable structure must have an age with the sunflower property. We also give concrete bounds in the case that the age has the hereditary property, the 3-disjoint amalgamation property, and is indivisible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.20381,
title = {Structured Sunflowers},
author = {Nathanael Ackerman and Mary Leah Karker and Mostafa Mirabi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.20381},
year = {2025}
}