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Ellis and the third author showed, verifying a conjecture of Frankl, that any $3$-wise intersecting family of subsets of $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$ admitting a transitive automorphism group has cardinality $o(2^n)$, while a construction of Frankl…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Keith Frankston , Jeff Kahn , Bhargav Narayanan

It is well known that Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture concerns the maximum number of hyperedges in an $r$-uniform hypergraph with bounded matching number. As a generalization, it is natural to ask for the maximum number of copies of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Junpeng Zhou , Xiying Yuan

Let $ k, m, n $ be positive integers with $ k \geq 2 $. A $ k $-multiset of $ [n]_m $ is a collection of $ k $ integers from the set $ \{1, 2, \ldots, n\} $ in which the integers can appear more than once but at most $ m $ times. A family…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Jiaqi Liao , Zequn Lv , Mengyu Cao , Mei Lu

Let $S_{n}$ denote the set of permutations of $[n]=\{1,2,\dots, n\}$. For each integer $k\geq 1$, let $S_{n,k}$ be the set of all permutations of $[n]$ with exactly $k$ disjoint cycles. A subset $H\subseteq S_{n,k}$ is to be a matching if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Cheng Yeaw Ku , Kok Bin Wong

This paper establishes an analog of the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem to polynomial rings over finite fields, affirmatively answering a conjecture of C. Tompkins. A $k$-uniform family of subsets of a set of finite size $n$ is $l$-intersecting…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Nika Salia , Dávid Tóth

We say that the families $\mathcal F_1,\ldots, \mathcal F_{s+1}$ of $k$-element subsets of $[n]$ are cross-dependent if there are no pairwise disjoint sets $F_1,\ldots, F_{s+1}$, where $F_i\in \mathcal F_i$ for each $i$. The rainbow version…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Andrey Kupavskii

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

Let $m$, $n$, and $k$ be integers satisfying $0 < k \leq n < 2k \leq m$. A family of sets $\mathcal{F}$ is called an $(m,n,k)$-intersecting family if $\binom{[n]}{k} \subseteq \mathcal{F} \subseteq \binom{[m]}{k}$ and any pair of members of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Wei-Tian Li , Bor-Liang Chen , Kuo-Ching Huang , Ko-Wei Lih

We develop a new approach to approximate families of sets, complementing the existing `$\Delta$-system method' and `junta approximations method'. The approach, which we refer to as `spread approximations method', is based on the notion of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Andrey Kupavskii , Dmitriy Zakharov

A $k$-partition of an $n$-set $X$ is a collection of $k$ pairwise disjoint non-empty subsets whose union is $X$. A family of $k$-partitions of $X$ is called $t$-intersecting if any two of its members share at least $t$ blocks. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Jie Wen , Benjian Lv

The classical Erd\H os-Ko-Rado (EKR) Theorem states that if we choose a family of subsets, each of size (k), from a fixed set of size (n (n > 2k)), then the largest possible pairwise intersecting family has size (t ={n-1\choose k-1}). We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Anna Celaya , Anant P. Godbole , Mandy Rae Schleifer

We prove the 4-uniform Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture for every matching number $s\ge 6961$. The proof has two parts. First, building on ideas from Frankl--R\"odl--Ruci\'nski, we formulate a general finite-board criterion for the $r$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jianfeng Hou , Caiyun Hu , Xizhi Liu

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a family of subsets of a finite set. A subfamily of $\mathcal{A}$ is said to be intersecting when any two of its members contain at least one common element. We say that $\mathcal{A}$ is an Erd{\H o}s-Ko-Rado (EKR)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 J. B. Ebrahimi , A. Taherkhani

We introduce the theory of div point sets, which aims to provide a framework to study the combinatoric nature of any set of points in general position on an Euclidean plane. We then show that proving the unsatisfiability of some first-order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Archy Will He

The Kneser graph ${\rm KG}_{n,k}$ is a graph whose vertex set is the family of all $k$-subsets of $[n]$ and two vertices are adjacent if their corresponding subsets are disjoint. The classical Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem determines the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Meysam Alishahi , Ali Taherkhani

The well-known Koml\'os conjecture states that given $n$ vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with Euclidean norm at most one, there always exists a $\pm 1$ coloring such that the $\ell_{\infty}$ norm of the signed-sum vector is a constant independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Nikhil Bansal , Haotian Jiang , Raghu Meka , Sahil Singla , Makrand Sinha

A family of subsets $\mathcal{F}\subseteq {[n]\choose k}$ is called intersecting if any two of its members share a common element. Consider an intersecting family, a direct problem is to determine its maximal size and the inverse problem is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Xiangliang Kong , Gennian Ge

A family $\mathcal{F}$ on ground set $\{1,2,\ldots, n\}$ is maximal $k$-wise intersecting if every collection of $k$ sets in $\mathcal{F}$ has non-empty intersection, and no other set can be added to $\mathcal{F}$ while maintaining this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-30 József Balogh , Ce Chen , Haoran Luo

A family of sets is $s$-intersecting if every pair of its sets has at least $s$ elements in common. It is an $s$-star if all its members have some $s$ elements in common. A family of sets is called $s$-EKR if all its $s$-intersecting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Neal Bushaw , James Danielsson , Glenn Hurlbert

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of subsets of $[n]$. The diameter of $\mathcal{F}$ is the maximum size of symmetric differences among pairs of its members. Resolving a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s, Kleitman determined the maximum size of a family…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Yongjiang Wu , Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Jiuqiang Liu , Guihai Yu