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Shadows and intersections: stability and new proofs
We give a short new proof of a version of the Kruskal-Katona theorem due to
Lov\'asz. Our method can be extended to a stability result, describing the
approximate structure of configurations that are close to being extremal, which
answers a question of Mubayi. This in turn leads to another combinatorial proof
of a stability theorem for intersecting families, which was originally obtained
by Friedgut using spectral techniques and then sharpened by Keevash and Mubayi
by means of a purely combinatorial result of Frankl. We also give an algebraic
perspective on these problems, giving yet another proof of intersection
stability that relies on expansion of a certain Cayley graph of the symmetric
group, and an algebraic generalisation of Lov\'asz's theorem that answers a
question of Frankl and Tokushige.Comment: 18 page
Supersaturation and stability for forbidden subposet problems
We address a supersaturation problem in the context of forbidden subposets. A
family of sets is said to contain the poset if there is an
injection such that implies . The poset on four elements with is
called butterfly. The maximum size of a family
that does not contain a butterfly is as proved by De Bonis, Katona, and
Swanepoel. We prove that if contains
sets, then it has to contain at least copies of the butterfly provided for some positive . We show by a
construction that this is asymptotically tight and for small values of we
show that the minimum number of butterflies contained in is
exactly
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