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The state of art of the sunflower lemma

I am interesting in the sunflower system and its applications in computer science. Given a Universe $U$ and a collection of $k$ sets $A_i$ is called a k-sunflower system if $A_i \cap A_j = Y $ for ...
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Can a partition free family in $2^{[n]}$ always be enlarged to one of size $2^{n-1}$?

Let $\left[ n \right]=\{{1,2,\cdots,n\}}$ and call a family $\mathcal{F} \subset 2^{\left[n\right]}$ partition-free if it does not contain any partition of $\left[n\right]$. A recent question asked ...
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Minimum number of couples of sets with non-empty intersection in a union closed family

Every union closed family $\mathcal{F}$, $\emptyset \notin \mathcal{F}$, with $|\mathcal{F}| = n$ sets, must have at least $\frac{2}{3}\binom{n}{2}$ unordered couples of sets with at least one element ...
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Number of members of a separating union-closed family whose universe has given cardinality

If I'm not wrong, it is easy to prove the following statement: If $n \leq 4$ is a natural number, if $\mathcal{F}$ is a union-closed family of non-empty sets, if the universe of $\mathcal{F}$ (i.e. ...
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