A family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of $[n] := \{1,2,\ldots, n\}$ is called maximal $k$-wise intersecting if every collection of at most $k$ members of $\mathcal{F}$ has a non-empty intersection, and adding any other set to $\mathcal{F}$ breaks this property. An old question by Erd\H{o}s and Kleitman from 1974 asks for the minimum size of a maximal $k$-wise intersecting family. The case $k = 3$ is known for all sufficiently large $n$, but the problem remains open for all $k \geqslant 4$. The previous best-known upper bound is by Janzer, which has a leading term $(k-1)2^{k-3}2^{n/(k-1)}$ for sufficiently large $n$ divisible by $k-1$. In this note, we improve this bound to $(4k-10)2^{n/(k-1)}$, which reduces the dependence on $k$ in the leading coefficient from exponential to linear and is within a factor of $4$ of the known lower bound.
We consider $k$-graphs, $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$, $k\geq 3$. A $k$-graph is called intersecting if any two of its edges have non-empty intersection. It is called a star if all its edges share a common vertex. The $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}$ is called Helly if all its intersecting subfamilies are stars. If the sa...
Let $k>t\ge 1$ be integers and set $d=k-t$. A $k$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal F$ is called $t$-intersecting if any two edges intersect in at least $t$ vertices, and is called $t$-critical if its minimum $t$-transversal has size $k$. Frankl proved that, for $k\ge d^4$,$|\mathcal F|\le \binom{k+d}{d},$ with equality onl...
Lu Lu, Rongrong Lu, Qifan Wang et al.· 0 citations
For positive integers $d$ and $k$, let $n_k(d)$ be the maximum order of a graph of maximum degree at most $d$ and diameter at most $k$. We prove that $$ \lim_{d\to\infty}\frac{n_k(d)}{d^k}=1$$ for every fixed $k$, thereby resolving the asymptotic degree-diameter problem for fixed diameter and proving a conjecture of Bo...
Wouter Cames van Batenburg, Samuel Korsky· 0 citations
Let $\mathrm{Sym(n,k)}$ denote the set of permutations on $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ with exactly $k$ cycles. A family $\mathcal{F}\subset\mathrm{Sym}(n,k)$ is said to be intersecting if $\sigma^{-1}\tau$ has a fixed point for all $\sigma,\tau\in\mathcal{F}$. In this paper, we investigate the size and structure of maximum-size...
The Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture is governed by two competing ways of excluding $s+1$ disjoint edges: one may concentrate all edges on fewer than $k(s+1)$ vertices, or force every edge to meet a fixed $s$-set. We determine a near-optimal range in which the second construction is extremal. For every fixed $k\ge2$, ther...
Meng-Yue Cao, Hong Liu, Hai-Xiang Zhang· 1 citation· ⚡1
We prove that for all fixed $k\geq 4$, any $N$ vertex graph with no independent set of size $n$ and $N\geq \Omega(n^{k-1}/\log^{k-2}n)$ contains at least $$ \Omega\bigg(\binom Nk \Big(\frac{\log n}{n}\Big)^{\binom k2}/\log n\bigg) $$ cliques of order $k$, and for $k\geq 5$ this is best possible conditional on the known...
L. Post· 0 citations
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