Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
We contine our study of the following combinatorial problem: What is the largest integer N = N (t, m, p) for which there exists a set of N people satisfying the following conditions: (a) each person speaks t languages, (b) among any m people there are two who speak a common language and (c) at most p speak a common language. We obtain bounds for N(t, m, p) and evaluate N(3, m, p) for all m and infintely many values of p.