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The extremal number of Venn diagrams

2019/11/01 by Keevash, Peter, Leader, Imre, Long, Jason +1
#Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1911.00487

Abstract

We show that there exists an absolute constant C>0 such that any family F⊂ \0,1\n of size at least Cn3 has dual VC-dimension at least 3. Equivalently, every family of size at least Cn3 contains three sets such that all eight regions of their Venn diagram are non-empty. This improves upon the Cn3.75 bound of Gupta, Lee and Li and is sharp up to the value of the constant.

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