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Let $M$ be a non-zero binary matrix with distinct rows where the rows are closed under certain logical operators. In this article, we investigate the existence of columns containing an equal or greater number of ones than zeros.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Mohammad Javad Moghaddas Mehr

The Union-Closed Sets Conjecture, often attributed to P\'eter Frankl in 1979, remains an open problem in discrete mathematics. It posits that for any finite family of sets $S\neq\{\emptyset\}$, if the union of any two sets in the family is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Kengbo Lu , Abigail Raz

The union-closed sets conjecture states that in any nonempty union-closed family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of a finite set, there exists an element contained in at least a proportion $1/2$ of the sets of $\mathcal{F}$. Using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Lei Yu

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

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

We let $\mathcal{F}$ be a finite family of sets closed under taking unions and $\emptyset \not \in \mathcal{F}$, and call an element abundant if it belongs to more than half of the sets of $\mathcal{F}$. In this notation, the classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Adam Kabela , Michal Polák , Jakub Teska

We demonstrate that when a graph exhibits a specific type of symmetry, it satisfies the Union Closed Conjecture(UCC). Additionally, we show that certain graph classes, such as Cylindrical Grid Graphs and Torus Grid Graphs also satisfy the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Nived J M

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

Gilmer has recently shown that in any nonempty union-closed family $\mathcal F$ of subsets of a finite set, there exists an element contained in at least a proportion $.01$ of the sets of $\mathcal F$. We improve the proportion from $.01$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Will Sawin

We give a number of results about families of Ulam sets. Generalizing behavior of Ulam sets U(1,n), we prove using an novel model theoretic approach that there is a rigidity phenomenon for Ulam sets U(a,b) as b increases. Based on this, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Joshua Hinman , Borys Kuca , Alexander Schlesinger , Arseniy Sheydvasser

The Frankl conjecture, also known as the union-closed sets conjecture, states that in any finite non-empty union-closed family, there exists an element in at least half of the sets. Let $f(n,a)$ be the maximum number of sets in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Brianna Amaral , Lucien Dalton , Drew Polakowski , Annie Raymond , Bertram Thomas

We introduce some generalized topological concepts to deal with union-closed families, and show that one can reduce the proof of Frankl's conjecture to some families of so-called supratopological spaces. We prove some results on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-18 André Carvalho , António Machiavelo

A starting point in the investigation of intersecting systems of subsets of a finite set is the elementary observation that the size of a family of pairwise intersecting subsets of a finite set [n]={1,...,n}, denoted by 2^{[n]}, is at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Eva Czabarka , Glenn Hurlbert , Vikram Kamat

The celebrated union-closed conjecture is concerned with the cardinalities of various subsets of the Boolean $d$-cube. The cardinality of such a set is equivalent, up to a constant, to its measure under the uniform distribution, so we can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Gabriel Gendler

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

Given a surjective ring homomorphism, we study when the induced group homomorphism on unit groups is surjective. To this end, we introduce notions of generalized inverses and units, as well as a class of rings such that the set of closed…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Justin Chen

Conceiving of premises as collected into sets or multisets, instead of sequences, may lead to triviality for classical and intuitionistic logic in general proof theory, where we investigate identity of deductions. Any two deductions with…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Kosta Dosen

We consider partially ordered sets of combinatorial structures under consecutive orders, meaning that two structures are related when one embeds in the other such that `consecutive' elements remain consecutive in the image. Given such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Victoria Ironmonger , Nik Ruškuc

We verify an explicit inequality conjectured recently by Gilmer, thus proving that for any nonempty union-closed family $F \subseteq 2^{[n]}$, some $i\in [n]$ is contained in at least a $\frac{3-\sqrt{5}}{2} \approx 0.38$ fraction of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Ryan Alweiss , Brice Huang , Mark Sellke

The famous MLC Conjecture states that the Mandelbrot set is locally connected, and it is considered by many to be the central conjecture in one-dimensional complex dynamics. Among others, it implies density of hyperbolicity in the quadratic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Anna Miriam Benini