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A proof of the union-closed sets conjecture

Combinatorics 2023-02-09 v2

Abstract

We provide a proof of the union-closed sets conjecture, by means of a suitable refinement of the breakthrough entropy-approach introduced by Gilmer. The novelty here is to consider a convex combination of AA and ABA\cup B, where A,BA,B are independent samples from the uniform distribution over a union-closed family.

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@article{arxiv.2302.03484,
  title  = {A proof of the union-closed sets conjecture},
  author = {Raffaele Scandone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03484},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

There is a mistake in the proof of Proposition 1.2, at the end of page 4

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