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Two families $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ of sets are said to be cross-$t$-intersecting if each set in $\mathcal{A}$ intersects each set in $\mathcal{B}$ in at least $t$ elements. An active problem in extremal set theory is to determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Peter Borg

For a family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of a finite set, define $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{F})=\{F\setminus F': F, F'\in\mathcal{F}\}$. A family $\mathcal{F}$ is called intersecting if $F\cap F'\not=\emptyset$ for all $F, F'\in\mathcal{F}$. Frankl…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Yan zilong , Peng Yuejian

A set $A$ $t$-intersects a set $B$ if $A$ and $B$ have at least $t$ common elements. Families $\mathcal{A}_1, \mathcal{A}_2, \dots, \mathcal{A}_k$ of sets are cross-$t$-intersecting if, for every $i$ and $j$ in $\{1, 2, \dots, k\}$ with $i…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Peter Borg

A family $\mathcal{F}$ of $k$-subsets of an $n$-set is called $s$-almost $t$-intersecting if each member is $t$-disjoint with at most $s$ members. In this paper, we prove that, if $\left|\mathcal{F}\right|$ is maximum, then $\mathcal{F}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Dehai Liu , Kaishun Wang , Tian Yao

We show that an $n$-uniform maximal intersecting family has size at most $e^{-n^{0.5+o(1)}}n^n$. This improves a recent bound by Frankl. The Spread Lemma of Alweiss, Lowett, Wu and Zhang plays an important role in the proof.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Dmitrii Zakharov

A $k$-uniform family $\mathcal{F}$ is called intersecting if $F\cap F'\neq \emptyset$ for all $F,F'\in \mathcal{F}$. The shadow family $\partial \mathcal{F}$ is the family of $(k-1)$-element sets that are contained in some members of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Peter Frankl , Jian Wang

The families $\mathcal F_1\subseteq \binom{[n]}{k_1},\mathcal F_2\subseteq \binom{[n]}{k_2},\dots,\mathcal F_r\subseteq \binom{[n]}{k_r}$ are said to be cross-intersecting if $|F_i\cap F_j|\geq 1$ for any $1\leq i<j\leq r$ and $F_i\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Menglong Zhang , Tao Feng

To study how balanced or unbalanced a maximal intersecting family $\mathcal{F}\subseteq \binom{[n]}{r}$ is we consider the ratio $\mathcal{R}(\mathcal{F})=\frac{\Delta(\mathcal{F})}{\delta(\mathcal{F})}$ of its maximum and minimum degree.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Zoltán Loránt Nagy , Lale Özkahya , Balázs Patkós , Máté Vizer

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

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

A sunflower with $r$ petals is a collection of $r$ sets over a ground set $X$ such that every element in $X$ is in no set, every set, or exactly one set. Erd\H{o}s and Rado \cite{er} showed that a family of sets of size $n$ contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Jeremy Chizewer

For a family $\mathcal F$, let $\mathcal D(\mathcal F)$ stand for the family of all sets that can be expressed as $F\setminus G$, where $F,G\in \mathcal F$. A family $\mathcal F$ is intersecting if any two sets from the family have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Peter Frankl , Sergei Kiselev , Andrey Kupavskii

Let $m\geq 2$, $n$ be positive integers, and $R_i=\{k_{i,1} >k_{i,2} >\cdots> k_{i,t_i}\}$ be subsets of $[n]$ for $i=1,2,\ldots,m$. The families $\mathcal{F}_1\subseteq \binom{[n]}{R_1},\mathcal{F}_2\subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Zhen Jia , Qing Xiang , Jimeng Xiao , Huajun Zhang

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $k$-dimensional subspaces of an $n$-dimensional vector space. Write $\mathcal{D}_{\mathcal{F}}(H;t)=\{F\in \mathcal{F}\colon \dim(F\cap H)\leq t \}$ for a subspace $H$. The family $\mathcal{F}$ is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Shuhui Yu , Lijun Ji

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

Let $[n]:=\lbrace 1,2,\ldots,n \rbrace$, and $M$ be a set of positive integers. Denote the family of all subsets of $[n]$ with sizes in $M$ by $\binom{\left[n\right]}{M}$. The non-empty families…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Shuang Li , Dehai Liu , Deping Song , Tian Yao

Let $L = \{\frac{a_1}{b_1}, \ldots , \frac{a_s}{b_s}\}$, where for every $i \in [s]$, $\frac{a_i}{b_i} \in [0,1)$ is an irreducible fraction. Let $\mathcal{F} = \{A_1, \ldots , A_m\}$ be a family of subsets of $[n]$. We say $\mathcal{F}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Niranjan Balachandran , Rogers Mathew , Tapas Kumar Mishra

Let $\mathcal T_n$ denote the set of all labelled spanning trees of $K_n$. A family $\mathcal F \subset \mathcal T_n$ is $t$-intersecting if for all $A, B \in \mathcal F$ the trees $A$ and $B$ share at least $t$ edges. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Elizaveta Iarovikova , Andrey Kupavskii

In this paper we introduce a problem that bridges forbidden subposet and forbidden subconfiguration problems. The sets $F_1,F_2, \dots,F_{|P|}$ form a copy of a poset $P$, if there exists a bijection $i:P\rightarrow \{F_1,F_2,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Patkós , Máté Vizer

For a positive integer $d\geq 2$, a family $\mathcal F\subseteq \binom{[n]}{k}$ is said to be d-wise intersecting if $|F_1\cap F_2\cap \dots\cap F_d|\geq 1$ for all $F_1, F_2, \dots ,F_d\in \mathcal F$. A d-wise intersecting family…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Menglong Zhang , Tao Feng