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Motivated by odd-sunflowers, introduced recently by Frankl, Pach, and P{\'a}lv{\"o}lgyi, we initiate the study of temperate families: a family $\mathcal{F} \subseteq \mathcal{P}([n])$ is said to be \emph{temperate} if each $A \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Jan Petr , Pavel Turek

For $k\geq3$, a collection of $k$ sets is said to form a \emph{weak $\Delta$-system} if the intersection of any two sets from the collection has the same size. Erd\H{o}s and Szemer\'{e}di asked about the size of the largest family…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Eric Naslund

A sunflower with $r$ petals is a collection of $r$ sets over a ground set $X$ such that every element in $X$ is in no set, every set, or exactly one set. Erd\H{o}s and Rado \cite{er} showed that a family of sets of size $n$ contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Jeremy Chizewer

Consider a family $\mathcal{F}$ of $k$-subsets of an ambient $(k^2-k+1)$-set such that no pair of $k$-subsets in $\mathcal{F}$ intersects in exactly one element. In this short note we show that the maximal size of such $\mathcal{F}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Danila Cherkashin

For a given positive integer $k$ we say that a family of subsets of $[n]$ is $k$-antichain saturated if it does not contain $k$ pairwise incomparable sets, but whenever we add to it a new set, we do find $k$ such sets. The size of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Irina Đanković , Maria-Romina Ivan

We study the problem of determining the size of the largest intersecting $P$-free family for a given partially ordered set (poset) $P$. In particular, we find the exact size of the largest intersecting $B$-free family where $B$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Dániel Gerbner , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

Given a poset $P$ we say a family $\mathcal{F}\subseteq P$ is centered if it is obtained by `taking sets as close to the middle layer as possible'. A poset $P$ is said to have the centeredness property if for any $M$, among all families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Jozsef Balogh , Sarka Petrickova , Adam Zsolt Wagner

We study the supersaturation problems of oddtown and eventown. Given a family $\mathcal A$ of subsets of an $n$ element set, let $op(\mathcal A)$ denote the number of distinct pairs $A,B\in \mathcal A$ for which $|A \cap B|$ is odd. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Xin Wei , Yuhao Zhao , Xiande Zhang , Gennian Ge

Extending a classical theorem of Sperner, we characterize the integers $m$ such that there exists a maximal antichain of size $m$ in the Boolean lattice $B_n$, that is, the power set of $[n]:=\{1,2,\dots,n\}$, ordered by inclusion. As an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Jerrold R. Griggs , Thomas Kalinowski , Uwe Leck , Ian T. Roberts , Michael Schmitz

The following classical question in extremal set theory is due to Erd\H os and S\'os: what is the size of the largest family $\mathcal F\subset {[n]\choose k}$ with no two sets $F_1,F_2\in \mathcal F$ such that $|F_1\cap F_2| = t$? In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Andrey Kupavskii , Yakov Shubin

Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, a graph $G$ is said to be $\mathcal{F}$-saturated if $G$ does not contain a copy of $F$ as a subgraph for any $F\in\mathcal{F}$, but the addition of any edge $e\notin E(G)$ creates at least one copy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Yue Ma

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $r$-graphs. An $r$-graph $G$ is called $\mathcal{F}$-saturated if it does not contain any members of $\mathcal{F}$ but adding any edge creates a copy of some $r$-graph in $\mathcal{F}$. The saturation number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Natalie C. Behague

This paper resolves two open problems in extremal set theory. For a family $\mathcal{F} \subseteq 2^{[n]}$ and $i, j\in [n]$, we denote $\mathcal{F} (i,\bar{j})=\{F\backslash\{i\}: F\in \mathcal{F}, F\cap\{i,j\}=\{i\}\}$. The sturdiness…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yongjiang Wu , Zhiyi Liu , Lihua Feng , Yongtao Li

The problem of determining the maximum size $La(n,P)$ that a $P$-free subposet of the Boolean lattice $B_n$ can have, attracted the attention of many researchers, but little is known about the induced version of these problems. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Balazs Patkos

We are interested in maximizing the number of pairwise unrelated copies of a poset $P$ in the family of all subsets of $[n]$. We prove that for any $P$ the maximum number of unrelated copies of $P$ is asymptotic to a constant times the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Andrew P. Dove , Jerrold R. Griggs

Let $\mathcal{F}_1$ and $\mathcal{F}_2$ be two families of subsets of an $n$-element set. We say that $\mathcal{F}_1$ and $\mathcal{F}_2$ are multiset-union-free if for any $A,B\in \mathcal{F}_1$ and $C,D\in \mathcal{F}_2$ the multisets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Or Ordentlich , Ofer Shayevitz

Given partially ordered sets (posets) $(P, \leq_P)$ and $(P', \leq_{P'})$, we say that $P'$ contains a copy of $P$ if for some injective function $f\colon P\rightarrow P'$ and for any $A, B\in P$, $A\leq _P B$ if and only if $f(A)\leq_{P'}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Maria Axenovich , Christian Winter

Fix a prime $p\geq 11$. We show that there exists a positive integer $m$ such that any subset of $\mathbb{F}_p^n\times\mathbb{F}_p^n$ containing no nontrivial configurations of the form $(x,y),(x,y+z),(x,y+2z),(x+z,y)$ must have density…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Sarah Peluse

A set of integers is \emph{primitive} if it does not contain an element dividing another. Denote by $f(n)$ the number of maximum-size primitive subsets of $\{1,\ldots, 2n\}$. We prove that the limit $\alpha=\lim_{n\rightarrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Hong Liu , Péter Pál Pach , Richárd Palincza

A family $F$ of sets is said to be $t$-intersecting if $|A \cap B| \geq t$ for any $A,B \in F$. The seminal Complete Intersection Theorem of Ahlswede and Khachatrian (1997) gives the maximal size $f(n,k,t)$ of a $t$-intersecting family of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-05 David Ellis , Nathan Keller , Noam Lifshitz