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Let $e(n,s)$ denote the maximum size of a family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of an $n$-element set that contains no $s$ pairwise disjoint members. In 1968, answering a question of Erd\H{o}s, Kleitman determined $e(sm-1,s)$ and $e(sm,s)$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Andrey Kupavskii , Georgy Sokolov

More than 50 years ago, Erd\H os asked the following question: what is the maximum size of a family $\mathcal F$ of $k$-element subsets of an $n$-element set if it has no $s+1$ pairwise disjoint sets? This question attracted a lot of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Peter Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii

The Erd\H os Matching Conjecture states that the maximum size $f(n,k,s)$ of a family $\mathcal{F}\subseteq \binom{[n]}{k}$ that does not contain $s$ pairwise disjoint sets is $\max\{|\mathcal{A}_{k,s}|,|\mathcal{B}_{n,k,s}|\}$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Ryan R. Martin , Balázs Patkós

In 1965, Paul Erd\H{o}s asked about the largest family $Y$ of $k$-sets in $\{ 1, \ldots, n \}$ such that $Y$ does not contain $s+1$ pairwise disjoint sets. This problem is commonly known as the Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture. We investigate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Ferdinand Ihringer

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

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

A family of sets is said to be \emph{intersecting} if any two sets in the family have nonempty intersection. In 1973, Erd\H{o}s raised the problem of determining the maximum possible size of a union of $r$ different intersecting families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-09 David Ellis , Noam Lifshitz

For integers $n\ge s\ge2$, let $e(n,s)$ be the maximum size of a family $\mathcal F\subseteq2^{[n]}$ with no $s$ pairwise disjoint members. The study of determining $e(n,s)$ is closely related to its uniform counterpart, the well-known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Cheng Chi , Yan Wang

Let $\mathcal{A}_1,\ldots,\mathcal{A}_m$ be families of $k$-subsets of an $n$-set. Suppose that one cannot choose pairwise disjoint edges from $s+1$ distinct families. Subject to this condition we investigate the maximum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Peter Frankl , Jian Wang

We say that a family of $k$-subsets of an $n$-element set is intersecting, if any two of its sets intersect. In this paper we study different extremal properties of intersecting families, as well as the structure of large intersecting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Andrey Kupavskii

Let $S_{n}$ denote the set of permutations of $[n]=\{1,2,\dots, n\}$. For each integer $k\geq 1$, let $S_{n,k}$ be the set of all permutations of $[n]$ with exactly $k$ disjoint cycles. A subset $H\subseteq S_{n,k}$ is to be a matching if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Cheng Yeaw Ku , Kok Bin Wong

We consider families of $k$-subsets of $\{1, \dots, n\}$, where $n$ is a multiple of $k$, which have no perfect matching. An equivalent condition for a family $\mathcal{F}$ to have no perfect matching is for there to be a blocking set,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Mihir Singhal

The matching number of a family of subsets of an $n$-element set is the maximum number of pairwise disjoint sets. The families with matching number $1$ are called intersecting. The famous Erd\H os-Ko-Rado theorem determines the size of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Andrey Kupavskii

For integers $n\ge s\ge2$, let $e(n,s)$ denote the maximum size of a family $\F\subseteq2^{[n]}$ with no $s$ pairwise disjoint members. The problem of determining $e(n,s)$, now called the Erd\H{o}s--Kleitman problem, is the non-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Cheng Chi , Yan Wang

A family $\mathcal F\subset {[n]\choose k}$ is $U(s,q)$ of for any $F_1,\ldots, F_s\in \mathcal F$ we have $|F_1\cup\ldots\cup F_s|\le q$. This notion generalizes the property of a family to be $t$-intersecting and to have matching number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Peter Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii

Define a \textit{$t$-matching} of size $m$ in a $k$-uniform family as a collection $\{A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_m\} \subseteq \binom{[n]}{k}$ such that $|A_i \cap A_j| < t$ for all $1 \leq i < j \leq m$. Let $\mathcal{F}\subseteq \binom{[n]}{k}$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Haixiang Zhang , Mengyu Cao , Mei Lu

In 1965 Erd\H{o}s conjectured that the number of edges in k-uniform hypergraphs on n vertices in which the largest matching has s edges is maximized for hypergraphs of one of two special types. We settled this conjecture in the affirmative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Tomasz Luczak , Katarzyna Mieczkowska

The seminal Erd\H{o}s--Ko--Rado (EKR) theorem states that if $\mathcal{F}$ is a family of $k$-subsets of an $n$-element set $X$ for $k\leq n/2$ such that every pair of subsets in $\mathcal{F}$ has a nonempty intersection, then $\mathcal{F}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Melissa M. Fuentes , Vikram Kamat

In this paper, we study the following classical question of extremal set theory: what is the maximum size of a family of subsets of $[n]$ such that no $s$ sets from the family are pairwise disjoint? This problem was first posed by Erd\H os…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Peter Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii

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
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