The Sunflower Conjecture Proven
Combinatorics
2026-04-29 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate the truth of the sunflower conjecture by showing that a family of sets each of cardinality at most includes a -sunflower, if for a constant independent of and , where -sunflower means a family of different sets with a common pairwise intersection.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.13609,
title = {The Sunflower Conjecture Proven},
author = {Junichiro Fukuyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13609},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
8 pages to fix the error of Ver. 1. Please visit https://sites.psu.edu/sunflowerconjecture/2022/12/18/index-page/ for additional information on the proof