Elizaveta Iarovikova | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Forbidding just one intersection for short integer sequences

In this paper, we study the famous Erdős--Sós forbidden intersection problem for words over an alphabet of size $m$: what is the maximal size of a subfamily $\mathcal{F}$ of $[m]^n$ that does not contain two vectors $x, y$ coinciding on exactly $t - 1$ coordinates? We answer this question provided $m \ge \operatorname{poly}(t)$ and $n \ge \operatorname{poly}(t)$ for some polynomial function $\operatorname{poly}(\cdot)$ of $t$, greatly extending the recent result of Keevash, Lifshitz, Long and Minzer. Our proof combines some of the recently developed methods in extremal combinatorics, including the spread approximation technique of Kupavskii and Zakharov and the hypercontractivity approach developed in a series of works by Keevash, Keller, Lifshitz, Long, Marcus and Minzer.

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arXiv2025

A complete $t$-intersection theorem for families of spanning trees

Let $\mathcal T_n$ denote the set of all labelled spanning trees of $K_n$. A family $\mathcal F \subset \mathcal T_n$ is $t$-intersecting if for all $A, B \in \mathcal F$ the trees $A$ and $B$ share at least $t$ edges. In this paper, we determine for $n>n_0$ the size of the largest $t$-intersecting family $\mathcal F\subset \mathcal T_n$ for all meaningful values of $t$ ($t\le n-1$). This result is a rare instance when a complete $t$-intersection theorem for a given type of structures is known.

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