Erdős–Rado sunflower conjecture
Erdős–Rado sunflower conjecture
Let . For , a family of subsets of is -sunflower free if it contains no pairwise distinct sets whose pairwise intersections are all equal. In the uniform setting, every member of has size . Erdős–Rado sunflower conjecture. For , let be a -sunflower free family of -subsets of . Then
for a constant depending only on . This is the uniform sunflower conjecture for set systems; the paper presents it as the conjecture introduced by Erdős and Rado, while the supplied text gives no resolution status.
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Primary source
Omran Ahmadi and Hassan Norouzi, “A Polynomial Improvement of Naslund–Sawin Bound for Sunflower-Free Families Using Triangular Tensors”, arXiv:2606.30593 (2026).
Additional references
13 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2606.02667, arXiv:2605.12232, arXiv:2605.21208, arXiv:2310.15527, arXiv:2307.01374, arXiv:1908.08483, arXiv:1903.00580, arXiv:1804.10050, arXiv:1702.02831, arXiv:1606.09575, arXiv:1601.04897, arXiv:1411.4692.
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