The optimal d+1d+1 bound for fractional Helly in ultraproducts of pp-adics

Let KK be an ultraproduct of the fields Qpi\boldsymbol{Q}_{p_i} or Fpi((t))\boldsymbol{F}_{p_i}((t)) over a non-principal ultrafilter, and let φ(x,y)\varphi(x,y) be a partitioned formula with xd|x|\leq d. The optimal fractional Helly bound conjecture. Every such formula satisfies FHPd+1\operatorname{FHP}_{d+1}; equivalently, the bound 2d2^d in the stated corollary can be improved to d+1d+1. The paper proves the bound FHP2d\operatorname{FHP}_{2^d} and records d+1d+1 as the expected optimal bound, so the improvement remains open.

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Artem Chernikov and Chuyin Jiang, “Fractional Helly property and combinatorics of forking in NTP_2 theories”, arXiv:2605.18123 (2026).

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