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.
References
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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