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Let and be the maximum value of , where ranges over all subsets of which contain no subset of size with the same pairwise least common multiple.
Estimate .
Source: erdosproblems.com/856
No claim settles this problem.
Open. The site's label is OPEN (; page last edited 18 January 2026). Four pending partial claims are recorded. Two bound without determining its order: Erdős's bound of 1970 (claim page (Erdős, 1970)), and the bounds of Tang and Zhang of December 2025, with the sunflower-free capacity, together with their proof that exactly when the sunflower conjecture of Problem 857 fails at (claim page (Tang and Zhang, 2025)). Two later claims each assert with an exponent defined by an extremal problem and not evaluated: a note of 15 April 2026 posted in the discussion thread, written with GPT-5.4 Pro, whose exponent is the infimum over of the growth rate of a weighted sunflower-free partition function minus (Chojecki's claim page (2026)); and a manuscript entered on the proof-claim tab on 18 July 2026 as a full claim, written with GPT 5.6 Sol Pro, whose exponent is the supremum of over uniform families with no sets of equal pairwise union (the page of RayYoung, Zhu and Luo). These two are recorded as partial claims: the question asks for an estimate of , which for a function of polylogarithmic growth is its exponent, and each claim characterizes the exponent without evaluating it, its value left open on the claimants' own account (the note says that computing remains open; the manuscript's authors tie it to the sunflower conjecture); what each covers is stated on its page. The site's curator restated the first of them in the thread without checking it; the second has no comment on the tab. None of the four claims has a journal record, and nothing is reviewed here. The standing in the frontmatter is open, derived from the pending partial claims, no full claim being recorded.