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On a Frankl-Wilson Theorem

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We derive an analog of the Frankl-Wilson theorem on independence numbers of some distance graphs. The obtained results are applied to the problem of the chromatic number of a space ℝn with a forbidden equilateral triangle and to the problem of chromatic numbers of distance graphs with large girth.

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The author is grateful to Valentina Rybnikova for valuable assistance in organizing the computer calculations.

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The research was supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-01-00355; the President of the Russian Federation Council for State Support of Leading Scientific Schools, grant no. NSh-6760.2018.1; and the Simons Foundation.

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Problemy Peredachi Informatsii, 2019, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 86–106.

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Sagdeev, A.A. On a Frankl-Wilson Theorem. Probl Inf Transm 55, 376–395 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032946019040045

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