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The extremal number of Venn diagrams

Combinatorics 2019-11-04 v1

Abstract

We show that there exists an absolute constant C>0C>0 such that any family F{0,1}n\mathcal{F}\subset \{0,1\}^n of size at least Cn3Cn^3 has dual VC-dimension at least 3. Equivalently, every family of size at least Cn3Cn^3 contains three sets such that all eight regions of their Venn diagram are non-empty. This improves upon the Cn3.75Cn^{3.75} bound of Gupta, Lee and Li and is sharp up to the value of the constant.

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@article{arxiv.1911.00487,
  title  = {The extremal number of Venn diagrams},
  author = {Peter Keevash and Imre Leader and Jason Long and Adam Zsolt Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.00487},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages