Erdős–Chvátal simplex conjecture
Let , let denote the family of -subsets of , and let a -simplex be a collection of members of whose total intersection is empty but every -member subcollection has nonempty intersection. A star is the family of all -subsets containing a fixed element. Erdős–Chvátal simplex conjecture. If , , and contains no -simplex, then
with equality only if is a star. This generalizes Erdős's triangle conjecture; the source gives no resolution status.
References
Primary source
Jiuqiang Liu, Guihai Yu, Lihua Feng and Yongtao Li, “L-intersecting or Configuration Forbidden Families on Set Systems and Vector Spaces over Finite Fields”, arXiv:2403.04289 (2024).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1804.01026.
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