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Sunflower Bound with a Sub-Logarithmic Base

Combinatorics 2025-12-03 v2

Abstract

We show that a family F\mathcal{F} of sets each of cardinality mZ>2m \in \mathbb{Z}_{>2} includes a kk-sunflower if F(ck2lnmlnlnm)m |\mathcal{F}| \ge \left( \frac{c k^2 \ln m}{\ln \ln m} \right)^m for some constant c>0c>0, where kk-sunflower means a family of kk different sets with a common pairwise intersection. The base of the exponential lower bound is sub-logarithmic for each kk updating the current best-known result.

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@article{arxiv.2510.19037,
  title  = {Sunflower Bound with a Sub-Logarithmic Base},
  author = {Junichiro Fukuyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19037},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Minor errors in Ver. 1 fixed on 8 pages. Please open https://sites.psu.edu/sunflowerconjecture/2022/12/18/index-page/ for extra information such as proof details

R2 v1 2026-07-01T06:58:41.356Z