Holroyd–Talbot conjecture for levels of hereditary families

Let H\mathcal{H} be a hereditary family, let μ(H)\mu(\mathcal{H}) denote the size of a smallest base of H\mathcal{H}, and let H(r)\mathcal{H}^{(r)} be its rrth level. The rrth level has the tt-star property when its largest tt-intersecting subfamilies are tt-stars. Holroyd–Talbot conjecture. If 1tr1 \leq t \leq r and

μ(H)(t+1)(rt+1),\mu(\mathcal{H}) \geq (t+1)(r-t+1),

then H(r)\mathcal{H}^{(r)} has the tt-star property. This generalizes the Holroyd–Talbot conjecture and includes the case of the power-set levels; it remains open in the stated generality.

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Primary source

Peter Borg, “Cross-intersecting non-empty uniform subfamilies of hereditary families”, arXiv:1806.01093 (2018).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1805.05241.

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