Arcs on Spheres Intersecting at Most Twice
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Let p be a puncture of a punctured sphere, and let Q be the set of all other punctures. We prove that the maximal cardinality of a set A of arcs pairwise intersecting at most once, which start at p and end in Q, is |χ|(|χ| + 1). We deduce that the maximal cardinality of a set of arcs with arbitrary endpoints pairwise intersecting at most twice is |χ|(|χ|+ 1)(|χ|+ 2).
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