Intersection theorems for systems of finite sets
β Scribed by Gy. Katona
- Publisher
- Akadmiai Kiad
- Year
- 1964
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 383 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1588-2632
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The authors have proved in a recent paper a complete intersection theorem for systems of finite sets. Now we establish such a result for nontrivial-intersection systems (in the sense of Hilton and Milner [Quart.
Erdos and Rado defined a A-system, as a family in which every two members have the same intersection. Here we obtain a new upper bound on the maximum cardinality q ( n , q ) of an n-uniform family not containing any A-system of cardinality q. Namely, we prove that, for any a > 1 and q , there exists
A family of r sets is called a 2-system if any two sets have the same intersection. Denote by F(n, r) the most number of subsets of an n-element set which do not contain a 2-system consisting of r sets. Constructive new lower bounds for F(n, r) are given which improve known probabilistic results, an