René Thiemann
Archive of Formal Proofs 2021.

AFP entry

 
Abstract

We formally define sunflowers and provide a formalization of the sunflower lemma of Erdős and Rado: whenever a set of size-k-sets has a larger cardinality than (r – 1)^k * k!, then it contains a sunflower of cardinality r.

 

BibTex

@article{Sunflowers-AFP,
author = {René Thiemann},
title = {The Sunflower Lemma of Erdős and Rado},
journal = {Archive of Formal Proofs},
month = feb,
year = 2021,
note = {\url{https://isa-afp.org/entries/Sunflowers.html},
Formal proof development},
ISSN = {2150-914x},
}