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Let $K$ be a set of $k$ positive integers. A biclique cover of type $K$ of a graph $G$ is a collection of complete bipartite subgraphs of $G$ such that for every edge $e$ of $G$, the number of bicliques need to cover $e$ is a member of $K$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Farokhlagha Moazami , Nasrin Soltankhah

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

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

Chv\'{a}tal conjectured that a star is amongst the largest intersecting subfamiles of a finite subset-closed family of sets. Kleitman later strengthened Chv\'{a}tal's conjecture, suggesting that maximal intersecting subfamilies of $2^{[n]}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Jonathan Cary

The seminal complete intersection theorem of Ahlswede and Khachatrian gives the maximum cardinality of a $k$-uniform $t$-intersecting family on $n$ points, and describes all optimal families. We extend this theorem to several other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Yuval Filmus

Given a sequence of positive integers $p = (p_1, . . ., p_n)$, let $S_p$ denote the family of all sequences of positive integers $x = (x_1,...,x_n)$ such that $x_i \le p_i$ for all $i$. Two families of sequences (or vectors), $A,B \subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-02 János Pach , Gábor Tardos

Simonovits and S\'{o}s conjectured that the maximal size of a triangle-intersecting family of graphs on $n$ vertices is $2^{\binom{n}{2}-3}$. Their conjecture has recently been proved using spectral methods. We provide an elementary proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-10 Yuval Filmus

A family $\mathcal F\subset 2^{[n]}$ is called intersecting if any two of its sets intersect. Given an intersecting family, its diversity is the number of sets not passing through the most popular element of the ground set. Peter Frankl…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Andrey Kupavskii

For any $\epsilon>0$ and $n>(1+\epsilon)t$, $n>n_0(\epsilon)$ we determine the size of the largest $t$-intersecting family of permutations, as well as give a sharp stability result. This resolves a conjecture of Ellis, Friedgut and Pilpel…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Andrey Kupavskii

We consider families, $\mathcal{F}$ of $k$-subsets of an $n$-set. For integers $r\geq 2$, $t\geq 1$, $\mathcal{F}$ is called $r$-wise $t$-intersecting if any $r$ of its members have at least $t$ elements in common. The most natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Peter Frankl , Jian Wang

Let $r(k)$ denote the maximum number of edges in a $k$-uniform intersecting family with covering number $k$. Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz proved that $ \lfloor k! (e-1) \rfloor \leq r(k) \leq k^k.$ Frankl, Ota, and Tokushige improved the lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Andrii Arman , Troy Retter

The fact that the adjacency matrix of every finite graph is diagonalizable plays a fundamental role in spectral graph theory. Since this fact does not hold in general for digraphs, it is natural to ask whether it holds for digraphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Yuxuan Li , Binzhou Xia , Sanming Zhou , Wenying Zhu

A family of perfect matchings of $K_{2n}$ is $t$-$intersecting$ if any two members share $t$ or more edges. We prove for any $t \in \mathbb{N}$ that every $t$-intersecting family of perfect matchings has size no greater than $(2(n-t) -…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Nathan Lindzey

A family $\mathcal{A}$ of sets is said to be intersecting if every two sets in $\mathcal{A}$ intersect. Two families $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ are said to be cross-intersecting if each set in $\mathcal{A}$ intersects each set in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Peter Borg

In this paper, we derive a tight upper bound for the size of an intersecting $k$-Sperner family of subspaces of the $n$-dimensional vector space $\mathbb{F}_{q}^{n}$ over finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ which gives a $q$-analogue of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Jiuqiang Liu , Guihai Yu , Lihua Feng , Yongtao Li

Two subsets $A,B$ of an $n$-element ground set $X$ are said to be \emph{crossing}, if none of the four sets $A\cap B$, $A\setminus B$, $B\setminus A$ and $X\setminus(A\cup B)$ are empty. It was conjectured by Karzanov and Lomonosov forty…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Andrey Kupavskii , János Pach , István Tomon

Fix $A$, a family of subsets of natural numbers, and let $G_A(n)$ be the maximum cardinality of a subset of $\{1,2,..., n\}$ that does not have any subset in $A$. We consider the general problem of giving upper bounds on $G_A(n)$ and give…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Kevin O'Bryant

Two families of sets \(\mathcal{A}\) and \(\mathcal{B}\) are called \emph{cross-\(t\)-intersecting} if \(|A \cap B| \geq t\) for all \(A \in \mathcal{A}\) and \(B \in \mathcal{B}\). Determining the maximum product of sizes for such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Jingjun Bao , Lijun Ji

A family $F$ of graphs on a fixed set of $n$ vertices is called triangle-intersecting if for any $G_1,G_2 \in F$, the intersection $G_1 \cap G_2$ contains a triangle. More generally, for a fixed graph $H$, a family $F$ is $H$-intersecting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Nathan Keller , Noam Lifshitz

Let $G$ be the symmetric group of degree $n$. Let $\omega(G)$ be the maximal size of a subset $S$ of $G$ such that $\langle x,y \rangle = G$ whenever $x,y \in S$ and $x \neq y$ and let $\sigma(G)$ be the minimal size of a family of proper…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Francesco Fumagalli , Martino Garonzi , Attila Maróti