Bollobás–Leader–Malvenuto conjecture on Turán densities of daisies

For integers r3r \geq 3 and t2t \geq 2, an rr-uniform tt-daisy Drt\mathcal D^t_r is the collection of sets

{ST:TU, T=t}\{S \cup T: T\subset U,\ |T|=t\}

where S=rt|S|=r-t, U=2t|U|=2t, and SU=S\cap U=\emptyset. Its Turán density is

π(Drt)=limnex(n,Drt)(nr),\pi(\mathcal D^t_r)=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\operatorname{ex}(n,\mathcal D^t_r)}{\binom nr},

where ex(n,Drt)\operatorname{ex}(n,\mathcal D^t_r) is the maximum size of a family of rr-element subsets of {1,2,,n}\{1,2,\ldots,n\} containing no copy of Drt\mathcal D^t_r.

Bollobás–Leader–Malvenuto conjecture. For all t2t\geq 2,

limrπ(Drt)=0.\lim_{r\to\infty}\pi(\mathcal D^t_r)=0.

This conjecture was made by Bollobás, Leader and Malvenuto, and independently by Bukh. It remains open even for t=2t=2; for comparison, the first unknown case is π(D32)\pi(\mathcal D^2_3), for which the known lower bound is 1/21/2.

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Primary source

David Ellis and Dylan King, “Lower bounds for the Turán densities of daisies”, arXiv:2204.08930 (2023).

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