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Main Author: Postle, Luke
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19978
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author Postle, Luke
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contents We discuss the recently developed method of refined absorption and how it is used to provide a new proof of the Existence Conjecture for combinatorial designs. This method can also be applied to resolve open problems in extremal and probabilistic design theory while providing a unified framework for these problems. Crucially, the main absorption theorem can be used as a "black-box" in these applications obviating the need to reprove the absorption step for each different setup.
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spellingShingle Refined Absorption: A New Proof of the Existence Conjecture and its Applications to Extremal and Probabilistic Design Theory
Postle, Luke
Combinatorics
We discuss the recently developed method of refined absorption and how it is used to provide a new proof of the Existence Conjecture for combinatorial designs. This method can also be applied to resolve open problems in extremal and probabilistic design theory while providing a unified framework for these problems. Crucially, the main absorption theorem can be used as a "black-box" in these applications obviating the need to reprove the absorption step for each different setup.
title Refined Absorption: A New Proof of the Existence Conjecture and its Applications to Extremal and Probabilistic Design Theory
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19978