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A fundamental result in extremal set theory is Katona's shadow intersection theorem, which extends the Kruskal-Katona theorem by giving a lower bound on the size of the shadow of an intersecting family of $k$-sets in terms of its size. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi

We consider the following generalization of the seminal Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem, due to Frankl. For some k>=2, let F be a k-wise intersecting family of r-subsets of an n element set X, i.e. for any k sets F1,...,Fk in F, their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-03 Vikram Kamat

Katona's intersection theorem states that every intersecting family $\mathcal F\subseteq[n]^{(k)}$ satisfies $\vert\partial\mathcal F\vert\geq\vert\mathcal F\vert$, where $\partial\mathcal F=\{F\setminus x:x\in F\in\mathcal F\}$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Marcelo Sales , Bjarne Schülke

The classical Kruskal-Katona theorem gives a tight upper bound for the size of an $r$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ as a function of the size of its shadow. Its stability version was obtained by Keevash who proved that if the size of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Xizhi Liu , Sayan Mukherjee

We study families $\mathcal{F}\subseteq 2^{[n]}$ with restricted intersections and prove a conjecture of Snevily in a stronger form for large $n$. We also obtain stability results for Kleitman's isodiametric inequality and families with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Jun Gao , Hong Liu , Zixiang Xu

Given a family $S$ of $k$--subsets of $[n]$, its lower shadow $\Delta(S)$ is the family of $(k-1)$--subsets which are contained in at least one set in $S$. The celebrated Kruskal--Katona theorem gives the minimum cardinality of $\Delta(S)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Oriol Serra , Lluís Vena

In this note, we give short proofs of three theorems about intersection problems. The first one is a determination of the maximum size of a nontrivial $k$-uniform, $d$-wise intersecting family for $n\ge \left(1+\frac{d}{2}\right)(k-d+2)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-27 József Balogh , William Linz

We say that a family of $k$-subsets of an $n$-element set is intersecting if any two of its sets intersect. In this paper we study properties and structure of large intersecting families. We prove a conclusive version of Frankl's theorem on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Andrey Kupavskii

We show that if $\mathcal{A} \subset {[n] \choose n/2}$ with measure bounded away from zero and from one, then the $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$-iterated upper shadows of $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{A}^c$ intersect in a set of positive measure. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Hou Tin Chau , David Ellis , Marius Tiba

We prove a minimum degree version of the Kruskal--Katona theorem: given $d\ge 1/4$ and a triple system $F$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $d\binom n2$, we obtain asymptotically tight lower bounds for the size of its shadow.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Zoltán Füredi , Yi Zhao

We present new short proofs to both the exact and the stability results of two extremal problems. The first one is the extension of Tur\'{a}n's theorem in hypergraphs, which was firstly studied by Mubayi $\cite{MU06}$. The second one is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Xizhi Liu

The well-known Erd\H{o}s--Ko--Rado theorem states that for $n> 2k$, every intersecting family of $k$-sets of $[n]:=\{1,\ldots ,n\}$ has at most $ {n-1 \choose k-1}$ sets, and the extremal family consists of all $k$-sets containing a fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Yongjiang Wu , Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Jiuqiang Liu , Guihai Yu

In this article we define a minor relation, which is stronger than the classical one, but too strong to become a well-quasi-order on the class of finite graphs. Nevertheless, with this terminology we are able to introduce a conjecture,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-18 Tobias Ahsendorf

Combinatorics, in particular graph theory, has a rich history of being a domain of successful applications of tools from other areas of mathematics, including topological methods. Here, we survey the study of the Hom-complexes, and the ways…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry N. Kozlov

A family F is intersecting if any two members have a nonempty intersection. Erdos, Ko, and Rado showed that |F|\leq {n-1\choose k-1} holds for an intersecting family of k-subsets of [n]:={1,2,3,...,n}, n\geq 2k. For n> 2k the only extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-11 Peter Frankl , Zoltan Furedi

The Kruskal--Katona theorem determines the maximum number of $d$-cliques in an $n$-edge $(d-1)$-uniform hypergraph. A generalization of the theorem was proposed by Bollob\'as and Eccles, called the partial shadow problem. The problem asks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Ting-Wei Chao , Hung-Hsun Hans Yu

A short proof of a conjecture of Kropholler is given. This gives a relative version of Stallings' Theorem on the structure of groups with more than one end. A generalisation of the Almost Stability Theorem is also obtained, that gives…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 M. J. Dunwoody

In this paper, we provide a common generalization to the well-known Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado Theorem, Frankl-Wilson Theorem, Alon-Babai-Suzuki Theorem, and Snevily Theorem on set systems with $\mathcal{L}$-intersections. As a consequence, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Jiuqiang Liu , Shenggui Zhang , Jimeng Xiao

Kneser's 1955 conjecture -- proven by Lov\'asz in 1978 -- asserts that in any partition of the $k$-subsets of $\{1, 2, \dots, n\}$ into $n-2k-3$ parts, one part contains two disjoint sets. Schrijver showed that one can restrict to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Florian Frick

Two families $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ are called cross-intersecting if for every $F\in \mathcal{F}$ and $G\in \mathcal{G}$, the intersection $F\cap G$ is non-empty. It is significant to determine the maximum sum of sizes of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Yongjiang Wu , Lihua Feng , Yongtao Li
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