Frankl's conjecture for even n+tn+t and tt-intersecting kk-Sperner families

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Let [n]={1,…,n}[n]=\{1,\ldots,n\}, and let F⊆2[n]\mathcal{F}\subseteq 2^{[n]}. The family F\mathcal{F} is tt-intersecting if ∣A∩B∣≥t|A\cap B|\geq t for all A,B∈FA,B\in\mathcal{F}, and it is kk-Sperner if it contains no chain of length k+1k+1. Suppose that n+tn+t is even and n>tn>t. Frankl's conjecture. If F\mathcal{F} is a tt-intersecting kk-Sperner family, then

∣F∣≤∑i=0k−1(n(n+t)/2+i).|\mathcal{F}|\leq \sum_{i=0}^{k-1}\binom{n}{(n+t)/2+i}.

The conjectured extremal construction consists of the kk consecutive layers beginning at level (n+t)/2(n+t)/2. Frankl proved the conjecture in several ranges; the general common extension of Milner's and Frankl's theorems remains open.

References

Primary source

Jia-Bao Yang and Leilei Zhang, “Counterexamples to the Balogh-Linz-Patkós Conjecture”, arXiv:2607.03026 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2209.01656, arXiv:2008.08792.

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