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    On Mubayi's Conjecture and conditionally intersecting sets

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    Mubayi's Conjecture states that if F\mathcal{F} is a family of kk-sized subsets of [n]={1,…,n}[n] = \{1,\ldots,n\} which, for kβ‰₯dβ‰₯2k \geq d \geq 2, satisfies A1βˆ©β‹―βˆ©Adβ‰ βˆ…A_1 \cap\cdots\cap A_d \neq \emptyset whenever ∣A1βˆͺβ‹―βˆͺAdβˆ£β‰€2k|A_1 \cup\cdots\cup A_d| \leq 2k for all distinct sets A1,…,Ad∈FA_1,\ldots,A_d \in\mathcal{F}, then ∣Fβˆ£β‰€(nβˆ’1kβˆ’1)|\mathcal{F}|\leq \binom{n-1}{k-1}, with equality occurring only if F\mathcal{F} is the family of all kk-sized subsets containing some fixed element. This paper proves that Mubayi's Conjecture is true for all families that are invariant with respect to shifting; indeed, these families satisfy a stronger version of Mubayi's Conjecture. Relevant to the conjecture, we prove a fundamental bijective duality between (i,j)(i,j)-unstable families and (j,i)(j,i)-unstable families. Generalising previous intersecting conditions, we introduce the (d,s,t)(d,s,t)-conditionally intersecting condition for families of sets and prove general results thereon. We conjecture on the size and extremal structures of families F∈([n]k)\mathcal{F}\in\binom{[n]}{k} that are (d,2k)(d,2k)-conditionally intersecting but which are not intersecting, and prove results related to this conjecture. We prove fundamental theorems on two (d,s)(d,s)-conditionally intersecting families that generalise previous intersecting families, and we pose an extension of a previous conjecture by Frankl and F\"uredi on (3,2kβˆ’1)(3,2k-1)-conditionally intersecting families. Finally, we generalise a classical result by Erd\H{o}s, Ko and Rado by proving tight upper bounds on the size of (2,s)(2,s)-conditionally intersecting families FβŠ†2[n]\mathcal{F}\subseteq 2^{[n]} and by characterising the families that attain these bounds. We extend this theorem for certain parametres as well as for sufficiently large families with respect to (2,s)(2,s)-conditionally intersecting families FβŠ†2[n]\mathcal{F}\subseteq 2^{[n]} whose members have at most a fixed number uu members
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