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Define $m(n,k,l)$ as the maximal size of a family $k$-element subsets of $[n]$ having the property that the intersection of every two sets is less than $l$.

As stated on wikipedia, in 1985 Rödl proved Erdős’s conjecture that for fixed $k$ and $l$ $$ \lim_{n \to \infty} m(n,k,l) = \binom{n}{l}/\binom{k}{l}.$$

(The book "the probabilistic method" contains a proof of this fact.)

Does anybody know what happens when $k = k(n), l = l(n)$? I am especially interested in the case when $l = O(\log n)$ and $k = n^{\epsilon}$ (which is one of the settings that has applications in theoretical computer science for Nisan-Wigderson pseudorandom generators).

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