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A near-exponential improvement of a bound of Erdős and Lovász on maximal intersecting families

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2019

Peter Frankl
Peter Frankl*
Affiliation:
Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1053 Budapest, Retanoda u. 13-15, Hungary
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Email: peter.frankl@gmail.com
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Abstract

Let m(k) denote the maximum number of edges in a non-extendable, intersecting k-graph. Erdős and Lovász proved that m(k) ≤ kk. For k ≥ 625 we prove m(k) < kk・e−k1/4/6.

MSC classification

Primary: 05C65: Hypergraphs
Secondary: 05C35: Extremal problems
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Paper
Information
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , September 2019 , pp. 733 - 739
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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