The Erdős–Ko–Rado conjecture for tilings with arbitrary finite tile sets
Let be a finite nonempty set of allowed tile lengths. For a positive integer , let be the set of partitions of into intervals of lengths in , and let denote the set of tiles in a tiling . A family is intersecting if every two distinct tilings in have a common tile. Let , with and for . Set
Erdős–Ko–Rado conjecture for tilings. For sufficiently large , every intersecting family satisfies
This would extend the proven bound for tile sets containing , where the endpoint stars have size , and the known tilings theorem for . The conjecture concerns arbitrary finite nonempty tile sets and leaves the required threshold for sufficiently large unspecified.
References
Primary source
Casey Tompkins, “An Erdős-Ko-Rado Theorem for Tilings”, arXiv:2606.06030 (2026).
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