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Several results about the union-closed sets conjecture are presented.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Yining Hu

Frankl's conjecture, also known as the union-closed sets conjecture, can be equivalently expressed in terms of intersection-closed set families by considering the complements of sets. It posits that any family of sets closed under…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Masahiro Hachimori , Kenji Kashiwabara

It is a well-known conjecture, sometimes attributed to Frankl, that for any family of sets which is closed under the union operation, there is some element which is contained in at least half of the sets. Gilmer was the first to prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Luke Pebody

We show that there is some absolute constant $c>0$, such that for any union-closed family $\mathcal{F} \subseteq 2^{[n]}$, if \mbox{$|\mathcal{F}| \geq (\frac{1}{2}-c)2^n$}, then there is some element $i \in [n]$ that appears in at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Ilan Karpas

We prove Union-Closed sets conjecture.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Vladimir Blinovsky , Llohann D Speranca

Let G be a graph with vertices V and edges E. Let F be the union-closed family of sets generated by E. Then F is the family of subsets of V without isolated points. Theorem: There is an edge e belongs to E such that |{U belongs to F | e…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Emanuel Knill

For a finite set of non-zero natural numbers that contains at least one element different from 1 and the least common multiple of any of its subsets, there exists a subset of at least half of its members which has a common divisor larger…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Tom Fischer

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a union-closed family of sets with universe $\bigcup_{A \in \mathcal{A}}A = [n] = \{1,\cdots,n\}$ and length $\ell$. We prove that $|\mathcal{A}| \leq \sum_{i=0}^{\ell} \binom{n}{i}$, with equality if and only if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Christopher Bouchard

Given a union-closed family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of the universe $[n]$, with $\mathcal{F}$ not equal to the power set of $[n]$, a new subset $A$ can be added to it such that the resulting family remains union-closed. We construct a new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Dhruv Bhasin

Let $N$ be a finite set and $\mathcal{F}$, an intersection-closed family of subsets. Frankl conjectured that there always exists an element in $N$ which is contained in at most half the number of sets in $\mathcal{F}$ unless $\mathcal{F}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Rainer Schrader

In this note, we present a conjecture on intersections of set families, and a rephrasing of the conjecture in terms of principal downsets of Boolean lattices. The conjecture informally states that, whenever we can express the measure of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Antoine Amarilli , Mikaël Monet , Dan Suciu

We show that the Union-Closed Conjecture holds for the union-closed family generated by the cyclic translates of any fixed set.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-08 James Aaronson , David Ellis , Imre Leader

In this paper, we introduce the notion of the universe, induced communities, and cells with their corresponding spots. Using this language, we formulate and prove the union close set conjecture by showing that for any finite universe…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Theophilus Agama

We find previously unknown families of sets which ensure Frankl's conjecture holds for all families that contain them using an algorithmic framework. The conjecture states that for any nonempty union-closed (UC) family there exists an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Jonad Pulaj

A celebrated unresolved conjecture of Peter Frankl states that every finite collection of sets, with finite universe, admits an abundant element. In this paper, we prove Frankl's union-closed conjecture(FC). We provide an induction proof…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Acquaah Peter

Let Omega be a finite set and let S be a set system on Omega. For x in Omega, we denote by d_{S}(x) the number of members of S containing x. A long-standing conjecture of Frankl states that if S is union-closed then d(x) \geq |S|/2 for some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Victor Falgas--Ravry

In a recent breakthrough, Gilmer proved the union closed conjecture up to a constant factor. Using Gilmer's method and additional ideas, Chase and Lovett proved an optimal result for almost union-closed set systems. Here that result is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Raphael Yuster

Let $k\geqslant 3$ and let $A=\{0=a_{0}<a_{1}<\cdots<a_{k-1}\}$ with $\gcd(A)=1$. Freiman-Lev conjecture [V.F. Lev, Restricted set addition in groups, I. The classical setting, J. London Math. Soc. 62(2000), 27-40] is a well-known…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Yujie Wang , Min Tang

A conjecture of Freiman gives an exact formula for the largest volume of a finite set $A$ of integers with given cardinality $k = |A|$ and doubling $T = |2A|$. The formula is known to hold when $T \le 3k-4$, for some small range over $3k-4$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Gregory A. Freiman , Oriol Serra , Christoph Spiegel

Recently, Gilmer proved the first constant lower bound for the union-closed sets conjecture via an information-theoretic argument. The heart of the argument is an entropic inequality involving the OR function of two i.i.d.\ binary vectors,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jingbo Liu