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A note on almost disjoint families

Author(s): Péter Komjáth
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 303-305.
MSC (2000): Primary 03E05
Posted: July 8, 2008
MathSciNet review: 2439454
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Abstract: We give a short proof of the existence of arbitrarily large chromatic almost disjoint systems. With the same method we solve a problem of P. Szeptycki.


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Additional Information:

Péter Komjáth
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Eötvös University, P.O. Box 120, Budapest, 1518, Hungary
Email: kope@cs.elte.hu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09527-0
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09527-0
Keywords: Almost disjoint sets
Received by editor(s): November 20, 2007
Posted: July 8, 2008
Additional Notes: This research was partially supported by Hungarian National Research Grant T 046991.
Communicated by: Julia Knight
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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