The structure of large intersecting families

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Abstract: A collection of sets is {em intersecting} if every two members have nonempty intersection. We describe the structure of intersecting families of r-sets of an n-set whose size is quite a bit smaller than the maximum n−1chooser−1 given by the ErdH os-Ko-Rado Theorem. In particular, this extends the Hilton-Milner theorem on nontrivial intersecting families and answers a recent question of Han and Kohayakawa for large n. In the case r=3 we describe the structure of all intersecting families with more than 10 edges. We also prove a stability result for the Erdos matching problem. Our short proofs are simple applications of the Delta-system method introduced and extensively used by Frankl since 1977.





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