<p>Jukna's book <em>Extremal Combinatorics</em> explains basic results about sunflowers.  Is there a more thorough survey of various sunflower results?</p>

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2012-09-18T09:42:01.177Z
"[On Sunflowers and Matrix Multiplication](http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~umans/papers/ASU11-final.pdf)". P.S. in order to avoid trivial answers (like mine :-) you should write in your question a list of papers/results you already have/know ...
Marzio De Biasi
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2012-09-18T16:12:20.460Z
its hard to beat jukna ("the surveyor") for surveys! fyi there are some new tighter ("quasi-")sunflower thms in b.rossmans [Phd thesis](http://www.mit.edu/~brossman/mit-thesis.pdf) & related paper
vzn
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2012-09-18T18:13:29.303Z
also apparently closely related, the [erdos-ko-rado thm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Ko%E2%80%93Rado_theorem), proof eg [here](http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/comb/ekr.pdf)
vzn
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2012-09-19T13:43:50.463Z
[the Hilton-Milner theorem](http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~z-furedi/PUBS/furedi_frankl_nontrivial-intersecting.pdf) complements EKR and shows that the maximum size of an intersecting family is only attained by the trivial sunflower with a single element in the common intersection
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Detailed Materials on Sunflowers
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# Detailed Materials on Sunflowers

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-09-18)

Jukna's book *Extremal Combinatorics* explains basic results about sunflowers. Is there a more thorough survey of various sunflower results?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: "[On Sunflowers and Matrix Multiplication](http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~umans/papers/ASU11-final.pdf)". P.S. in order to avoid trivial answers (like mine :-) you should write in your question a list of papers/results you already have/know ...  
> **username_2**: its hard to beat jukna ("the surveyor") for surveys! fyi there are some new tighter ("quasi-")sunflower thms in b.rossmans [Phd thesis](http://www.mit.edu/~brossman/mit-thesis.pdf) & related paper  
> **username_2**: also apparently closely related, the [erdos-ko-rado thm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Ko%E2%80%93Rado_theorem), proof eg [here](http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/comb/ekr.pdf)  
> **username_3**: [the Hilton-Milner theorem](http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~z-furedi/PUBS/furedi_frankl_nontrivial-intersecting.pdf) complements EKR and shows that the maximum size of an intersecting family is only attained by the trivial sunflower with a single element in the common intersection  

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