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The codegree squared sum ${\rm co}_2(\cal F)$ of a family (hypergraph) $\cal F \subseteq \binom{[n]} k$ is defined to be the sum of codegrees squared $d(E)^2$ over all $E\in \binom{[n]}{k-1}$, where $d(E)=|\{F\in \cal F: E\subseteq F\}|$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Biao Wu , Huajun Zhang

If a family $\mathcal{F}$ of $k$-element subsets of an $n$-element set is pairwise intersecting, $2k\leq n$ then $|\mathcal{F}|\leq {n-1\choose k-1}$ holds by the celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem. But an intersecting family obviously…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Gyula O. H. Katona , Jian Wang

In this note, we investigate some properties of local Kneser graphs defined in [8]. In this regard, as a generalization of the Erd${\rm \ddot{o}}$s-Ko-Rado theorem, we characterize the maximum independent sets of local Kneser graphs. Next,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-24 Meysam Alishahi , Hossein Hajiabolhassan , Ali Taherkhani

In this note, we give short proofs of three theorems about intersection problems. The first one is a determination of the maximum size of a nontrivial $k$-uniform, $d$-wise intersecting family for $n\ge \left(1+\frac{d}{2}\right)(k-d+2)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-27 József Balogh , William Linz

The famous Erd\H{o}s-Rado sunflower conjecture suggests that an $s$-sun\-flower-free family of $k$-element sets has size at most $(Cs)^k$ for some absolute constant $C$. In this note, we investigate the analog problem for $k$-spaces over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Ferdinand Ihringer , Andrey Kupavskii

We give a Hilton-Milner Theorem for the $r$-independent sets in the graph that is the union of copies of $K_k$. That is, we determine the maximum intersecting families of $r$-independent sets in this graph, subject to the condition that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Karen Gunderson , Karen Meagher , Joy Morris , Venkata Raghu Tej Pantangi

Let $\textbf{k} := (k_1,\ldots,k_s)$ be a sequence of natural numbers. For a graph $G$, let $F(G;\textbf{k})$ denote the number of colourings of the edges of $G$ with colours $1,\dots,s$ such that, for every $c \in \{1,\dots,s\}$, the edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Oleg Pikhurko , Katherine Staden

For any graph $G=(V,E)$, a subset $S\subseteq V$ $dominates$ $G$ if all vertices are contained in the closed neighborhood of $S$, that is $N[S]=V$. The minimum cardinality over all such $S$ is called the domination number, written…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Aziz Contractor , Elliot Krop

The Reconstruction Conjecture of Kelly and Ulam states that any graph $G$ with $n\geq 3$ vertices can be reconstructed from the multiset $\mathcal{D}(G)$ of unlabelled subgraphs $G-v$ for all $v\in V(G)$. We refer to $\mathcal{D}(G)$ as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Charlotte Knierim , Anders Martinsson

The Erd\H{o}s-Rothschild problem from 1974 asks for the maximum number of $s$-edge colourings in an $n$-vertex graph which avoid a monochromatic copy of $K_k$, given positive integers $n,s,k$. In this paper, we systematically study the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Pranshu Gupta , Yani Pehova , Emil Powierski , Katherine Staden

The \emph{intersection density} of a finite transitive group $G\leq \operatorname{Sym}(\Omega)$ is the rational number $\rho(G)$ given by the ratio between the maximum size of a subset of $G$ in which any two permutations agree on some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Roghayeh Maleki , Andriaherimanana Sarobidy Razafimahatratra

Consider the Grassmann graph formed by $k$-dimensional subspaces of an $n$-dimensional vector space over the field of $q$ elements ($1<k<n-1$) and denote by $\Pi(n,k)_q$ the restriction of this graph to the set of projective $[n,k]_q$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-01 Mariusz Kwiatkowski , Mark Pankov , Antonio Pasini

The classical Erd\H{o}s-P\'{o}sa theorem states that for each positive integer k there is an f(k) such that, in each graph G which does not have k+1 disjoint cycles, there is a blocker of size at most f(k); that is, a set B of at most f(k)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Valentas Kurauskas , Colin McDiarmid

A $k$-uniform family of subsets of $[n]$ is intersecting if it does not contain a disjoint pair of sets. The study of intersecting families is central to extremal set theory, dating back to the seminal Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem of 1961 that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Shagnik Das , Tuan Tran

A family of subsets $\mathcal{F}$ is intersecting if $A \cap B \neq \emptyset$ for any $A, B \in \mathcal{F}$. In this paper, we show that for given integers $k > d \ge 2$ and $n \ge 2k+2d-3$, and any intersecting family $\mathcal{F}$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Hao Huang , Yi Zhang

Let $\mathcal{H}=(V,\mathcal{E})$ be an $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices and fix a positive integer $k$ such that $1\le k\le r$. A $k$-\emph{matching} of $\mathcal{H}$ is a collection of edges $\mathcal{M}\subset \mathcal{E}$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Christos Pelekis , Israel Rocha

The Erd\H{o}s--Ko--Rado (EKR) theorem and its generalizations can be viewed as classifications of maximum independent sets in appropriately defined families of graphs, such as the Kneser graph $K(n,k)$. In this paper, we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Karen Gunderson , Karen Meagher , Joy Morris , Venkata Raghu Tej Pantangi , Mahsa N. Shirazi

For a positive integer $k$, a graph property $\mathcal{H}$, and a graph parameter $\mathcal{P}$, let $\operatorname{ex}_{\mathcal{P}}(n, \mathcal{H}; \delta \geq k)$ denote the maximum value of $\mathcal{P}$ over all $n$-vertex graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xu Liu , Bo Ning , Tao Wang

For a given graph $H$, its subdivisions carry the same topological structure. The existence of $H$-subdivisions within a graph $G$ has deep connections with topological, structural and extremal properties of $G$. One prominent example of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Seonghyuk Im , Jaehoon Kim , Younjin Kim , Hong Liu

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
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