Poonen's twin-free structural formulation

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Let F\mathcal{F} be a finite union-closed family of sets, and let MM be its largest set. Assume that for every pair of elements a,b∈Ma,b\in M, the family contains a set AA with ∣A∩{a,b}∣=1|A\cap\{a,b\}|=1. Let xx be the only element belonging to at least half of the sets of F\mathcal{F}. Poonen's structural conjecture. If ∣M∣≥2|M|\geq 2, then F\mathcal{F} consists of ∅\emptyset together with precisely all subsets of MM containing xx; if ∣M∣=1|M|=1, then F={{x}}\mathcal{F}=\{\{x\}\} or F={∅,{x}}\mathcal{F}=\{\emptyset,\{x\}\}. This is the equivalent formulation associated with the twin-free condition and is stated as open.

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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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