Poonen's strict-majority conjecture for union-closed families

Let F\mathcal{F} be a union-closed family of sets. A power set is a family of the form P(X)\mathcal{P}(X) for some set XX. Poonen's conjecture. Unless F\mathcal{F} is a power set, it contains an element that appears in strictly more than half of its sets.

This strengthens Frankl's conjecture by requiring a strict majority outside the power-set case. It is attributed in the source to Poonen and remains open.

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André Carvalho and António Machiavelo, “On supratopologies, normalized families and Frankl conjecture”, arXiv:2408.11213 (2025).

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