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We investigate the product measures of intersection problems in extremal combinatorics. Invoking a recent result of He--Li--Wu--Zhang, we prove that for any $ n \geq t \geq 3$ and $ p_1, p_2 \in (0, \frac{1}{t+1})$, if $ \mathcal{F}_1,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Yongjiang Wu , Yongtao Li , Zhiyi Liu , Lihua Feng

Answering an open question from 2007, we construct infinite $k$-crossing-critical families of graphs that contain vertices of any prescribed odd degree, for any sufficiently large~$k$. To answer this question, we introduce several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Drago Bokal , Mojca Bračič , Marek Derňár , Petr Hliněný

The problem of bounding the size of a set system under various intersection restrictions has a central place in extremal combinatorics. We investigate the maximum number of disjoint pairs a set system can have in this setting. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-13 António Girão , Richard Snyder

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $k$-sized subsets of $[n]$ that does not contain $s$ pairwise disjoint subsets. The Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture, a celebrated and long-standing open problem in extremal combinatorics, asserts the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Tapas Kumar Mishra

The Frankl's conjecture, formulated in 1979. and still open, states that in every family of sets closed for unions there is an element contained in at least half of the sets. FC-families are families for which it is proved that every…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Filip Marić , Miodrag Živković , Bojan Vučković

Given integers $p\ge q>1$, a family of sets satisfies the $(p,q)$ property if among any $p$ members of it some $q$ intersect. We prove that for any fixed integer constants $p\ge q>1$, a family of $d$-intervals satisfying the $(p,q)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Shira Zerbib

We consider a problem of maximizing the product of the sizes of two uniform cross-$t$-intersecting families of sets. We show that the value of this maximum is at most polynomially larger (in the size of a ground set) than a quantity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Georgii P. Bulgakov , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Mikhail N. Vyalyi

For integers $n\ge s\ge 2$ let $e(n,s)$ denote the maximum of $|\mathcal F|,$ where $\mathcal F$ is a family of subsets of an $n$-element set and $\mathcal F$ contains no $s$ pairwise disjoint members. Half a century ago, solving a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Peter Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii

We prove the following the generalized Tur\'an type result. A collection $\mathcal{T}$ of $r$ sets is an $r$-triangle if for every $T_1,T_2,\dots,T_{r-1}\in \mathcal{T}$ we have $\cap_{i=1}^{r-1}T_i\neq\emptyset$, but $\cap_{T\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Dániel T. Nagy , Balázs Patkós

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem shows that for $n \ge 2k$ the largest intersecting $k$-uniform set family on $[n]$ has size $\binom{n-1}{k-1}$. It is natural to ask how far from intersecting larger set families must be. Katona,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Shagnik Das , Benny Sudakov

For all integers $k,d$ such that $k \geq 3$ and $k/2\leq d \leq k-1$, let $n$ be a sufficiently large integer {\rm(}which may not be divisible by $k${\rm)} and let $s\le \lfloor n/k\rfloor-1$. We show that if $H$ is a $k$-uniform hypergraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Yulin Chang , Huifen Ge , Jie Han , Guanghui Wang

Fix $d\geq2$ and let $f_{t}(z)=z^{d}+t$ be the family of polynomials parameterized by $t\in\mathbb{C}$. In this article, we will show that there exists a constant $C(d)$ such that for any $a,b\in\mathbb{C}$ with $a^{d}\neq b^{d}$, the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Hang Fu

We prove that the maximum size of a family of $k$-element subsets of the set $[n] = \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ which contains no singleton intersection is $\binom{n-2}{k-2}$ when $3k-3 \le n \le k^2-k+1$. This improves upon a recent result of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 William Linz

We introduce the following generalization of set intersection via characteristic vectors: for $n,q,s, t \ge 1$ a family $\mathcal{F}\subseteq \{0,1,\dots,q\}^n$ of vectors is said to be \emph{$s$-sum $t$-intersecting} if for any distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Balázs Patkós , Zsolt Tuza , Máté Vizer

We investigate properties of families $F$ of subsets of a finite set in a situation where subsets are incomparable by the binary inclusion relation and a) for any $A\notin F$, there is such set $A'\in F$ that either $A\subset A'$ or…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-04-17 B. S. Kochkarev

We prove a fractional Helly theorem for $k$-flats intersecting fat convex sets. A family $\mathcal{F}$ of sets is said to be $\rho$-fat if every set in the family contains a ball and is contained in a ball such that the ratio of the radii…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Attila Jung , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

Given integers $n\ge s\ge 2$, let $e(n,s)$ stand for the maximum size of a family of subsets of an $n$-element set that contains no $s$ pairwise disjoint members. The study of this quantity goes back to the 1960s, when Kleitman determined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Andrey Kupavskii , Georgy Sokolov

In this paper we study generalizations of classical results on intersection patterns of set systems in $\mathbb{R}^d$, such as the fractional Helly theorem or the $(p,q)$-theorem, in the setting of arbitrary triangulable spaces with a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xavier Goaoc , Andreas F. Holmsen , Zuzana Patáková

Let F be a family of subsets of an n-element set not containing four distinct members such that A union B is contained in C intersect D. It is proved that the maximum size of F under this condition is equal to the sum of the two largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Annalisa De Bonis , Gyula O. H. Katona , Konrad J. Swanepoel

The classical Erd\H os-Ko-Rado theorem states that if $k\le\floor{n/2}$ then the largest family of pairwise intersecting $k$-subsets of $[n]=\{0,1,...,n\}$ is of size ${{n-1}\choose{k-1}}$. A family of $k$ subsets satisfying this pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Patricia A. Carey , Anant P. Godbole
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