An Intersection-Weighted Erdős-Ko-Rado Theorem

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Autore principale: Tompkins, Casey
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author Tompkins, Casey
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contents We consider an Erdős-Ko-Rado type sum that weights each member of a uniform family according to its smallest intersection with the rest of the family. We prove that once the ground set is sufficiently large this sum is at most one, with equality exactly for stars. This simultaneously generalizes the usual Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem for every intersection threshold $t$ and $n$ sufficiently large. As a consequence we also obtain an extension of Hilton's theorem on cross-intersecting families.
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spellingShingle An Intersection-Weighted Erdős-Ko-Rado Theorem
Tompkins, Casey
Combinatorics
We consider an Erdős-Ko-Rado type sum that weights each member of a uniform family according to its smallest intersection with the rest of the family. We prove that once the ground set is sufficiently large this sum is at most one, with equality exactly for stars. This simultaneously generalizes the usual Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem for every intersection threshold $t$ and $n$ sufficiently large. As a consequence we also obtain an extension of Hilton's theorem on cross-intersecting families.
title An Intersection-Weighted Erdős-Ko-Rado Theorem
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04799