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For $E \subset \mathbb{N}$, a subset $R \subset \mathbb{N}$ is $E$-intersective if for every $A \subset E$ having positive upper relative density, we have $R \cap (A - A) \neq \varnothing$. On the other hand, $R$ is chromatically…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Pierre-Yves Bienvenu , John T. Griesmer , Anh N. Le , Thái Hoàng Lê

A set partition is $c$-uniform if every block has size $c$. Two families of $c$-uniform partitions of a finite set are said to be cross $t$-intersecting if two partitions from different families share at least $t$ blocks. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Tian Yao , Mengyu Cao , Haixiang Zhang

For a set $L$ of positive proper fractions and a positive integer $r \geq 2$, a fractional $r$-closed $L$-intersecting family is a collection $\mathcal{F} \subset \mathcal{P}([n])$ with the property that for any $2 \leq t \leq r$ and $A_1,…

Let $n$, $k$ and $t$ be positive integers, and let $\mathcal{F}$ be a collection of $k$-subsets of $[n]=\{1,2,\dots,n\}$. The $t$-covering number $\tau_t(\mathcal{F})$ of $\mathcal{F}$ is defined as the minimum size of a set $T$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Yu Zhu , Benjian Lv , Kaishun Wang

Let $R(k_1, \cdots, k_r)$ denote the classical $r$-color Ramsey number for integers $k_i \ge 2$. The Diagonal Conjecture (DC) for classical Ramsey numbers poses that if $k_1, \cdots, k_r$ are integers no smaller than 3 and $k_{r-1} \leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Meilian Liang , Stanisław Radziszowski , Xiaodong Xu

In this paper we study Tur\'an and Ramsey numbers in linear triple systems, defined as $3$-uniform hypergraphs in which any two triples intersect in at most one vertex. A famous result of Ruzsa and Szemer\'edi is that for any fixed $c>0$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Andras Gyarfas , Gabor N. Sarkozy

An $r$-regular graph is an $r$-graph, if every odd set of vertices is connected to its complement by at least $r$ edges. Seymour [On multicolourings of cubic graphs, and conjectures of Fulkerson and Tutte.~\emph{Proc.~London…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yulai Ma , Eckhard Steffen , Isaak H. Wolf , Junxue Zhang

We study multigraphs whose edge-sets are the union of three perfect matchings, $M_1$, $M_2$, and $M_3$. Given such a graph $G$ and any $a_1,a_2,a_3\in \mathbb{N}$ with $a_1+a_2+a_3\leq n-2$, we show there exists a matching $M$ of $G$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Michael Anastos , David Fabian , Alp Müyesser , Tibor Szabó

A Ryser design $\mathcal{D}$ on $v$ points is a collection of $v$ proper subsets (called blocks) of a point-set with $v$ points such that every two blocks intersect each other in $\lambda$ points (and $\lambda < v$ is a fixed number) and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Tushar Parulekar , Sharad Sane

The Erdos-Ko-Rado theorem tells us how large an intersecting family of r-sets from an n-set can be, while results due to Lovasz and Tuza give bounds on the number of singletons that can occur as pairwise intersections of sets from such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Talbot

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

An $r$-uniform hypergraph ($r$-graph for short) is called linear if every pair of vertices belong to at most one edge. A linear $r$-graph is complete if every pair of vertices are in exactly one edge. The famous Brown-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Asaf Shapira , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz noticed that an $r$-uniform intersecting hypergraph $H$ with maximal covering number, that is $\tau(H)=r$, must have at least $\frac{8}{3}r-3$ edges. There has been no improvement on this lower bound for 45 years. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-19 János Barát

A Ryser design $\mathcal{D}$ on $v$ points is a collection of $v$ proper subsets (called blocks) of a point-set with $v$ points satisfying (i) every two blocks intersect each other in $\lambda$ points for a fixed $\lambda < v$ (ii) there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Tushar D. Parulekar , Sharad S. Sane

A set of sets is called a family. Two families $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ of sets are said to be cross-intersecting if each member of $\mathcal{A}$ intersects each member of $\mathcal{B}$. For any two integers $n$ and $k$ with $1 \leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Peter Borg , Carl Feghali

A family of sets is said to be intersecting if every pair of sets in the family have non-empty intersection. In this paper, we initiate the study of intersecting non-uniform families of sets of one of two sizes containing given subfamilies.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Carl Feghali

A collection of sets is {\em intersecting} if every two members have nonempty intersection. We describe the structure of intersecting families of $r$-sets of an $n$-set whose size is quite a bit smaller than the maximum ${n-1 \choose r-1}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Alexandr Kostochka , Dhruv Mubayi

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

A subset $A$ of $[n] = \{1, \dots, n\}$ is $k$-separated if, when the elements of $[n]$ are considered on a circle, between any two elements of $A$ there are at least $k$ elements of $[n]$ that are not in $A$. A family $\mathcal{A}$ of sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Peter Borg , Carl Feghali

A family $\mathcal{F} \subset \mathcal{P}(n)$ is $r$-wise $k$-intersecting if $|A_1 \cap \dots \cap A_r| \geq k$ for any $A_1, \dots, A_r \in \mathcal{F}$. It is easily seen that if $\mathcal{F}$ is $r$-wise $k$-intersecting for $r \geq 2$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Agnijo Banerjee