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Intersection theorems for $\{0,\pm 1\}$-vectors and $s$-cross-intersecting families

Combinatorics 2019-05-31 v4 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In this paper we study two directions of extending the classical Erd\H os-Ko-Rado theorem which states that any family of kk-element subsets of the set [n]={1,,n}[n] = \{1,\ldots,n\} in which any two sets intersect, has cardinality at most (n1k1){n-1\choose k-1}. In the first part of the paper we study the families of {0,±1}\{0,\pm 1\}-vectors. Denote by Lk\mathcal L_k the family of all vectors v\mathbf v from {0,±1}n\{0,\pm 1\}^n such that v,v=k\langle\mathbf v,\mathbf v\rangle = k. For any kk, most ll and sufficiently large nn we determine the maximal size of the family VLk\mathcal V\subset \mathcal L_k such that for any v,wV\mathbf v,\mathbf w\in \mathcal V we have v,wl\langle \mathbf v,\mathbf w\rangle\ge l. We find some exact values of this function for all nn for small values of kk. In the second part of the paper we study cross-intersecting pairs of families. We say that two families are A,B\mathcal A, \mathcal B are \textit{ss-cross-intersecting}, if for any AA,BBA\in\mathcal A,B\in \mathcal B we have ABs|A\cap B|\ge s. We also say that a set family A\mathcal A is {\it tt-intersecting}, if for any A1,A2AA_1,A_2\in \mathcal A we have A1A2t|A_1\cap A_2|\ge t. For a pair of nonempty ss-cross-intersecting tt-intersecting families A,B\mathcal A,\mathcal B of kk-sets, we determine the maximal value of A+B|\mathcal A|+|\mathcal B| for nn sufficiently large.

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@article{arxiv.1603.00938,
  title  = {Intersection theorems for $\{0,\pm 1\}$-vectors and $s$-cross-intersecting families},
  author = {Peter Frankl and Andrey Kupavskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00938},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

This version contains a correction of an error, kindly pointed out to us by Danila Cherkashin and Sergei Kiselev. Notably, the statement of Theorem 5 part 2 is different

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