# Improved bounds for the sunflower lemma

@article{Alweiss2019ImprovedBF,
title={Improved bounds for the sunflower lemma},
author={Ryan Alweiss and Shachar Lovett and Kewen Wu and Jiapeng Zhang},
journal={Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing},
year={2019}
}
• Published 22 August 2019
• Mathematics
• Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing
A sunflower with r petals is a collection of r sets so that the intersection of each pair is equal to the intersection of all. Erdős and Rado proved the sunflower lemma: for any fixed r, any family of sets of size w, with at least about w w sets, must contain a sunflower. The famous sunflower conjecture is that the bound on the number of sets can be improved to c w for some constant c. In this paper, we improve the bound to about (logw) w . In fact, we prove the result for a robust notion of…
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