A strengthening of the thrackle conjecture for topological trees

Let P\mathcal{P} be a set of nn points in the plane, and let there be mm topological trees such that every pair of trees intersects exactly once and every leaf of every tree belongs to P\mathcal{P}. Strengthened thrackle conjecture. We conjecture that

mn.m\le n.

This is posed as a strengthening of the thrackle conjecture, asserting a linear upper bound on the number of pairwise once-intersecting topological trees whose leaves lie in a prescribed set of points. The source does not indicate that this strengthening has been resolved.

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Péter Ágoston, Gábor Damásdi, Balázs Keszegh and Dömötör Pálvölgyi, “Orientation of good covers”, arXiv:2206.01723 (2025).

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