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Denote by $\mathcal{H}_k (n,p)$ the random $k$-graph in which each $k$-subset of $\{1... n\}$ is present with probability $p$, independent of other choices. More or less answering a question of Balogh, Bohman and Mubayi, we show: there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Arran Hamm , Jeff Kahn

We characterize the shifted simple graphs and the $3$-uniform shifted hypergraphs whose inverse image under exterior shifting is the set of bases of a matroid: those are exactly the hypergraphs whose hyperedges form an initial lex-segment.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Lazar Guterman , Eran Nevo

A classical result by Erdos and Posa states that there is a function $f: {\mathbb N} \rightarrow {\mathbb N}$ such that for every $k$, every graph $G$ contains $k$ pairwise vertex disjoint cycles or a set $T$ of at most $f(k)$ vertices such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Ken-Ichi Kawarabayashi , Stephan Kreutzer , Paul Wollan

The Erd\H{o}s--Ko--Rado theorem is extended to designs in semilattices with certain conditions. As an application, we show the intersection theorems for the Hamming schemes, the Johnson schemes, bilinear forms schemes, Grassmann schemes,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-25 Sho Suda

We consider the random hypergraph on a finite vertex set by choosing each set of vertices as an hyperedge independently at random. We express the probability distributions of the (lower-)associated simplicial complex and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-09 S. Ren

A family of independent $r$-sets of a graph $G$ is an $r$-star if every set in the family contains some fixed vertex $v$. A graph is $r$-EKR if the maximum size of an intersecting family of independent $r$-sets is the size of an $r$-star.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Jessica De Silva , Adam B. Dionne , Aidan Dunkelberg , Pamela E. Harris

A Rado simplicial complex X is a generalisation of the well-known Rado graph. X is a countable simplicial complex which contains any countable simplicial complex as its induced subcomplex. The Rado simplicial complex is highly symmetric, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Michael Farber , Lewis Mead , Lewin Strauss

A hypergraph can be obtained from a simplicial complex by deleting some non-maximal simplices. By [11], a hypergraph gives an associated simplicial complex. By [4], the embedded homology of a hypergraph is the homology of the infimum chain…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Shiquan Ren , Chong Wang , Chengyuan Wu , Jie Wu

For a simplicial complex $\Delta$, we introduce a simplicial complex attached to $\Delta$, called the expansion of $\Delta$, which is a natural generalization of the notion of expansion in graph theory. We are interested in knowing how the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Somayeh Moradi , Fahimeh Khosh-Ahang

We give a proof of the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado Theorem using the Borel Fixed Point Theorem from algebraic group theory. This perspective gives a strong analogy between the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado Theorem and (generalizations of) the Gerstenhaber…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Russ Woodroofe

In this paper, we use the theory of Riordan matrices to introduce the notion of a Riordan graph. The Riordan graphs are a far-reaching generalization of the well known and well studied Pascal graphs and Toeplitz graphs, and also some other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Gi-Sang Cheon , Ji-Hwan Jung , Sergey Kitaev , Seyed Ahmad Mojallal

We consider an Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado type sum that weights each member of a uniform family according to its smallest intersection with the rest of the family. We prove that once the ground set is sufficiently large this sum is at most one, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Casey Tompkins

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado (EKR) theorem for Paley graphs (of square order) states that all maximum cliques are canonical in the sense that each maximum clique arises from the subfield construction. Recently, Asgarli and Yip extended…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Chi Hoi Yip

In this short note we provide a relatively simple proof of the Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture for families of finite (hyper-)graphs without the $k$-order property. It was originally proved by M. Malliaris and S. Shelah in "Regularity lemmas…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Artem Chernikov , Sergei Starchenko

Given a simple undirected graph $G$ there is a simplicial complex $\mathrm{Ind}(G)$, called the independence complex, whose faces correspond to the independent sets of $G$. This is a well studied concept because it provides a fertile ground…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Fred M. Abdelmalek , Priyavrat Deshpande , Shuchita Goyal , Amit Roy , Anurag Singh

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

We generalize the fundamental graph-theoretic notion of chordality for higher dimensional simplicial complexes by putting it into a proper context within homology theory. We generalize some of the classical results of graph chordality to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Karim A. Adiprasito , Eran Nevo , Jose A. Samper

Given a graph $G$, let $\mu(G)$ denote the size of the smallest maximal independent set in $G$. A family of subsets is called a star if some element is in every set of the family. A split vertex has degree at least 3. Holroyd and Talbot…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Peter Frankl , Glenn Hurlbert

We present a "modern" approach to the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem for Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs and apply it to the twisted Grassmann graphs discovered in 2005 by van Dam and Koolen.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Hajime Tanaka

We study algebraic shifting of uniform hypergraphs and finite simplicial complexes in the exterior algebra with respect to matrices which are not necessarily generic. Several questions raised by Kalai (2002) are addressed. For instance, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Antony Della Vecchia , Michael Joswig , Fabian Lenzen