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Erdős problem 602

Does every almost-disjoint family of countably infinite sets whose pairwise intersections all have size ≠ 1 have Property B?

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Two infinite sets with pairwise intersection of size ≠ 1.

If the family consists of exactly two countably infinite sets A₀ and A₁ with |A₀ ∩ A₁| ≠ 1 (and finite), then Property B holds.

Proof sketch: - If A₀ ∩ A₁ = ∅: the sets are disjoint. Pick distinct a, b ∈ A₀ and distinct c, d ∈ A₁. Colour b and c with 1, everything else with 0. Then A₀ has a (colour 0) and b (colour 1), and A₁ has c (colour 1) and d (colour 0), so neither is monochromatic. - If |A₀ ∩ A₁| ≥ 2: the intersection contains two distinct points x and y. Assign x colour 0 and y colour 1. Both A₀ and A₁ contain x and y, so neither is monochromatic.

FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/602.leanErdos602.erdos_602.variants.two_sets3 linesExact file
True  ∀ {α : Type u_1} (A : Fin 2 → Set α),    (∀ (i : Fin 2), (A i).Infinite) → (A 0 ∩ A 1).Finite → (A 0 ∩ A 1).ncard ≠ 1 → Erdos602.HasPropertyB (Fin 2) A
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