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Main Authors: Bennett, Patrick, Priestley, Amanda
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16355
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author Bennett, Patrick
Priestley, Amanda
author_facet Bennett, Patrick
Priestley, Amanda
contents An $r$-sunflower is a collection of $r$ sets such that the intersection of any two sets in the collection is identical. We analyze a random process which constructs a $w$-uniform $r$-sunflower free family starting with an empty family and at each step adding a set chosen uniformly at random from all choices that could be added without creating an $r$-sunflower with the previously chosen sets. To analyze this process, we extend results of the first author and Bohman arXiv:1308.3732v5 [math.CO], who analyzed a general random process which adds one object at a time chosen uniformly at random from all objects that can be added without creating certain forbidden subsets.
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spellingShingle The Sunflower-Free Process
Bennett, Patrick
Priestley, Amanda
Combinatorics
Probability
An $r$-sunflower is a collection of $r$ sets such that the intersection of any two sets in the collection is identical. We analyze a random process which constructs a $w$-uniform $r$-sunflower free family starting with an empty family and at each step adding a set chosen uniformly at random from all choices that could be added without creating an $r$-sunflower with the previously chosen sets. To analyze this process, we extend results of the first author and Bohman arXiv:1308.3732v5 [math.CO], who analyzed a general random process which adds one object at a time chosen uniformly at random from all objects that can be added without creating certain forbidden subsets.
title The Sunflower-Free Process
topic Combinatorics
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url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16355