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Main Author: Hurlbert, Glenn
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16144
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  • A family of sets is intersecting if every pair of its members has an element in common. Such a family of sets is called a star if some element is in every set of the family. Given a graph $G$, let $μ(G)$ denote the size of the smallest maximal independent set of $G$. In 2005, Holroyd and Talbot conjectured the following generalization of the Erdős-Ko-Rado Theorem: for $1\le r\le μ(G)/2$, there is a maximum size intersecting family of independent $r$-sets that is a star. In this paper we present the history of this conjecture and survey the results that have supported it over the last 20 years.