Jiang's higher-order union-closed families conjecture

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Let F\mathcal{F} be a union-closed family of sets and let

n=∣U(F)∣.n=|U(\mathcal{F})|.

Jiang's conjecture. For every positive integer k≤nk\leq n, there exists a set S⊆U(F)S\subseteq U(\mathcal{F}) with ∣S∣=k|S|=k that is contained in at least

2−k∣F∣2^{-k}|\mathcal{F}|

of the sets in F\mathcal{F}.

For k=1k=1 this reduces to Frankl's conjecture. The source attributes this generalization to Y. Jiang and provides no resolution of the full statement.

References

Primary source

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

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