Poonen's twin-free union-closed family conjecture

Let F\mathcal{F} be a finite union-closed family of sets with F\emptyset \notin\mathcal{F}. Elements aa and bb are twins if every set AFA\in\mathcal{F} satisfies A{a,b}1|A\cap\{a,b\}|\neq 1; the family is twin-free if it has no twins. Let MM be the largest set of F\mathcal{F}. An element is abundant if it belongs to more than half of the sets of F\mathcal{F}. Poonen's twin-free conjecture. If precisely one element is abundant, then F\mathcal{F} consists exactly of all subsets of MM containing that element. This stronger structural conjecture is stated to remain open, and the paper reports little known about partial results.

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Adam Kabela, Michal Polák and Jakub Teska, “The number of abundant elements in union-closed families without small sets”, arXiv:2212.09279 (2023).

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