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The union-closed sets conjecture, attributed to P\'eter Frankl from 1979, states that for any non-empty finite union-closed family of finite sets not consisting of only the empty set, there is an element that is in at least half of the sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Masoud Zargar

Frankl's union-closed sets conjecture states that in every finite union-closed set of sets, there is an element that is contained in at least half of the member-sets (provided there are at least two members). The conjecture has an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Henning Bruhn , Oliver Schaudt

In this article, we investigate some fixed point results satisfying a new generalized $\Delta$-implicit contractive condition in ordered complete multiplicative $\mathbf{G}_\mathcal{M}-$metric space. Also, some new definitions and fixed…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Mohamed Gamal , Fu-Gui Shi

A set system is called union closed if for any two sets in the set system their union is also in the set system. Gilmer recently proved that in any union closed set system some element belongs to at least a $0.01$ fraction of sets, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Zachary Chase , Shachar Lovett

We present and study new definitions of universal and programmable universal unary functions and consider a new simplicity criterion: almost decidability of the halting set. A set of positive integers S is almost decidable if there exists a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Cristian S. Calude , Damien Desfontaines

Motivated by questions asked by Erdos, we prove that any set $A\subset{\mathbb N}$ with positive upper density contains, for any $k\in{\mathbb N}$, a sumset $B_1+\cdots+B_k$, where $B_1,\dots,B_k\subset{\mathbb N}$ are infinite. Our proof…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Bryna Kra , Joel Moreira , Florian K. Richter , Donald Robertson

The existence of initial singularities in expanding universes is proved without assuming the timelike convergence condition. The assumptions made in the proof are ones likely to hold both in open universes and in many closed ones. (It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Arvind Borde

We introduce the notion of uniform exactness, or uniform amenability at infinity, for discrete groups and prove it for a wide class of groups containing free groups and their limit groups. This shows a novel strong convergence phenomenon…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Narutaka Ozawa

We prove that in a semi-bounded o-minimal expansion of an ordered group every non-empty open definable set is a finite union of open cells.

Logic · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Mário J. Edmundo , Pantelis Eleftheriou , Luca Prelli

The union-closed sets conjecture (sometimes referred to as Frankl's conjecture) states that every finite, nontrivial union-closed family of sets has an element that is in at least half of its members. Although the conjecture is known to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Cory H. Colbert

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

Suppose $M$ is a complete, embedded minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with an infinite number of ends, finite genus and compact boundary. We prove that the simple limit ends of $M$ have properly embedded representatives with compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-11 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez , Antonio Ros

We show that for any union-closed family $\mathcal{F} \subseteq 2^{[n]}, \mathcal{F} \neq \{\emptyset\}$, there exists an $i \in [n]$ which is contained in a $0.01$ fraction of the sets in $\mathcal{F}$. This is the first known constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Justin Gilmer

The union-closed sets conjecture, also known as Frankl's conjecture, is a well-studied problem with various formulations. In terms of lattices, the conjecture states that every finite lattice $L$ with more than one element contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Christopher Bouchard

We introduce an infinite set of integer mappings that generalize the well-known Collatz-Ulam mapping and we conjecture that an infinite subset of these mappings feature the remarkable property of the Collatz conjecture, namely that they…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-30 M. Bruschi

The union-closed sets conjecture (Frankl's conjecture) says that for any finite union-closed family of finite sets, other than the family consisting only of the empty set, there exists an element that belongs to at least half of the sets in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Ze-Chun Hu , Shi-Lun Li

We show that the set of entries generated by any finite set of doubly stochastic matrices is nowhere dense, in contrast to the cases of stochastic matrices or unitary matrices. In other words, there is no finite universal set of doubly…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Wei Zhan

Let $P_{n}$ be a set of $n$ points, including the origin, in the unit square $U = [0,1]^2$. We consider the problem of constructing $n$ axis-parallel and mutually disjoint rectangles inside $U$ such that the bottom-left corner of each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Sandip Banerjee , Aritra Banik , Bhargab B. Bhattacharya , Arijit Bishnu , Soumyottam Chatterjee

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

We show that every set $A$ of natural numbers with positive upper density can be shifted to contain the restricted sumset $\{b_1 + b_2 : b_1, b_2\in B \text{ and } b_1 \neq b_2 \}$ for some infinite set $B \subset A$.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Bryna Kra , Joel Moreira , Florian K. Richter , Donald Robertson