Salzborn's formulation of the union-closed sets conjecture

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Let F\mathcal{F} be a finite normalized family, meaning a normalized union-closed family in the terminology of the source, and let J(F)J(\mathcal{F}) denote its family of irreducible sets. Salzborn formulation. Then

∃ I∈J(F):∣I∣≥∣F∣2.\exists\, I\in J(\mathcal{F}): |I|\geq \frac{|\mathcal{F}|}{2}.

This is a formulation of Frankl's conjecture restricted to normalized families. The paper describes it as surprisingly unfruitful and gives no resolution, so it remains open.

References

Primary source

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

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