Large balanced-subset-free families of middle subsets
Large balanced-subset-free families of middle subsets
For positive integers and sufficiently large integers , let be a family of -subsets of . A subset of members of is balanced when it has the balancing property used in the definition of the frame index.
Balanced-subset family conjecture. For each and all sufficiently large , there is a family of -subsets of such that:
- has no balanced subsets of sizes .
- has a balanced subset of size .
- is as large as possible subject to these properties, and therefore
This conjecture generalizes the stated construction for index to larger even indices by allowing the ground-set parameter to grow. The existence of such families for every and all sufficiently large remains open.
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Primary source
Lawrence S. Moss and Arthur Paul Pedersen, “The Measurable Majority”, arXiv:2606.23853 (2026).
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