The regular-cardinal conjecture for sunflowerable dense linear orderings

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Let κ\kappa be a cardinal. A linear ordering is κ\kappa-dense when it has the density property at cardinality κ\kappa, and it is sunflowerable when it has the sunflower property.

The regular-cardinal conjecture for sunflowerable dense linear orderings. If κ\kappa is regular, then every κ\kappa-dense linear ordering is sunflowerable.

The paper has a characterization of sunflowerable countable linear orderings, but explains that the uncountable case is not fully characterized; in particular, there are linear orderings that are Qκ\mathbb{Q}_\kappa-scattered but not κ\kappa-scattered. The stated implication is left open.

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Nathanael Ackerman, Mary Leah Karker and Mostafa Mirabi, “Structured Sunflowers”, arXiv:2507.20381 (2025).

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