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A pair of families $(\cF,\cG)$ is said to be \emph{cross-Sperner} if there exists no pair of sets $F \in \cF, G \in \cG$ with $F \subseteq G$ or $G \subseteq F$. There are two ways to measure the size of the pair $(\cF,\cG)$: with the sum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Dániel Gerbner , Nathan Lemons , Cory Palmer , Balázs Patkós , Vajk Szécsi

A family of subsets of $[n]$ is intersecting if every pair of its sets intersects. Determining the structure of large intersecting families is a central problem in extremal combinatorics. Frankl-Kupavskii and Balogh-Das-Liu-Sharifzadeh-Tran…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-24 József Balogh , Ramon I. Garcia , Lina Li , Adam Zsolt Wagner

For a family of sets $\mathcal{F}$, let $\omega(\mathcal{F}):=\sum_{\{A,B\}\subset \mathcal{F}}|A\cap B|$. In this paper, we prove that provided $n$ is sufficiently large, for any $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$ with $|\mathcal{F}|=m$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Sumin Huang , Gyula O. H. Katona , Erfei Yue

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

For positive integers $n,r,k$ with $n\ge r$ and $k\ge2$, a set $\{(x_1,y_1),(x_2,y_2),\dots,(x_r,y_r)\}$ is called a $k$-signed $r$-set on $[n]$ if $x_1,\dots,x_r$ are distinct elements of $[n]$ and $y_1\dots,y_r\in[k]$. We say a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Tian Yao , Benjian Lv , Kaishun 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

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

This paper establishes an analog of the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem to polynomial rings over finite fields, affirmatively answering a conjecture of C. Tompkins. A $k$-uniform family of subsets of a set of finite size $n$ is $l$-intersecting…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Nika Salia , Dávid Tóth

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,…

We say that the families $\mathcal F_1,\ldots, \mathcal F_{s+1}$ of $k$-element subsets of $[n]$ are cross-dependent if there are no pairwise disjoint sets $F_1,\ldots, F_{s+1}$, where $F_i\in \mathcal F_i$ for each $i$. The rainbow version…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Andrey Kupavskii

The notion of cross intersecting set pair system of size $m$, $\Big(\{A_i\}_{i=1}^m, \{B_i\}_{i=1}^m\Big)$ with $A_i\cap B_i=\emptyset$ and $A_i\cap B_j\ne\emptyset$, was introduced by Bollob\'as and it became an important tool of extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Zoltán Füredi , András Gyárfás , Zoltán Király

A two-part extension of the famous Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado Theorem is proved. The underlying set is partitioned into $X_1$ and $X_2$. Some positive integers $k_i, \ell_i (1\leq i\leq m)$ are given. We prove that if ${\cal F}$ is an intersecting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Gyula O. H. Katona

Let $\mathcal F\subset 2^{[n]}$ be a family in which any three sets have non-empty intersection and any two sets have at least $38$ elements in common. The nearly best possible bound $|\mathcal F|\le 2^{n-2}$ is proved. We believe that $38$…

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

Let $X$ be an $n$-element set, where $n$ is even. We refute a conjecture of J. Gordon and Y. Teplitskaya, according to which, for every maximal intersecting family $\mathcal{F}$ of $\frac{n}2$-element subsets of $X$, one can partition $X$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Peter Frankl , Janos Pach

For a finite set $X$, we say that a set $H\subseteq X$ crosses a partition ${\cal P}=(X_1,\dots,X_k)$ of $X$ if $H$ intersects $\min (|H|,k)$ partition classes. If $|H|\geq k$, this means that $H$ meets all classes $X_i$, whilst for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Csilla Bujtás , Zsolt Tuza

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

A family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of a set $X$ is $t$-intersecting if $\vert A_i \cap A_j \vert \geq t$ for every $A_i, \; A_j \in \mathcal{F}$. We study intersecting families in the Hamming geometry. Given $X=\mathbb{F}_q^3$ a vector space…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Anderson N. Martinhão , Emerson L. Monte Carmelo

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem \cite{EKR1961} states that the maximum intersecting $k$-uniform family on $[n]$ is a full star if $n\ge 2k+1$. Furthermore, Hilton-Milner \cite{HM1967} showed that if an intersecting $k$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Yang Huang , Yuejian Peng

A perfect matching of a complete graph $K_{2n}$ is a 1-regular subgraph that contains all the vertices. Two perfect matchings intersect if they share an edge. It is known that if $\mathcal{F}$ is family of intersecting perfect matchings of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Nathan Lindzey

The extremal problems regarding the maximum possible size of intersecting families of various combinatorial objects have been extensively studied. In this paper, we investigate supersaturation extensions, which in this context ask for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-11 József Balogh , Shagnik Das , Hong Liu , Maryam Sharifzadeh , Tuan Tran