Partial results for union-closed conjectures on the weighted cube
Abstract
The celebrated union-closed conjecture is concerned with the cardinalities of various subsets of the Boolean -cube. The cardinality of such a set is equivalent, up to a constant, to its measure under the uniform distribution, so we can pose more general conjectures by choosing a different probability distribution on the cube. In particular, for any sequence of probabilities we can consider the product of independent Bernoulli random variables, with success probabilities . In this short note, we find a generalised form of Karpas' special case of the union-closed conjecture for families with density at least half. We also generalise Knill's logarithmic lower bound.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.13347,
title = {Partial results for union-closed conjectures on the weighted cube},
author = {Gabriel Gendler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13347},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
6 pages This work has been funded by the ERC (Horizon 2020, grant no. 834735)