New formulations of the union-closed sets conjecture

The union-closed sets conjecture states that if a finite set $\mathcal A$ of finite sets is union-closed and $\mathcal A\neq \{ \varnothing\}$, then there exists an element in $\displaystyle\cup_{A\in \mathcal A} A$ that belongs to at least half of the sets in $\mathcal A$. We present three new fo...

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Main Author: Sudipta Mallik
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Published: American Journal of Combinatorics 2022-02-01
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Online Access:https://ajcombinatorics.org/Volume1/V1.03.pdf
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spelling doaj-art-099d1744f1da43bb861f79df0b0306bd2025-08-20T02:34:33ZengAmerican Journal of CombinatoricsThe American Journal of Combinatorics2768-42022022-02-0114046New formulations of the union-closed sets conjectureSudipta Mallik0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7496-2147Northern Arizona UniversityThe union-closed sets conjecture states that if a finite set $\mathcal A$ of finite sets is union-closed and $\mathcal A\neq \{ \varnothing\}$, then there exists an element in $\displaystyle\cup_{A\in \mathcal A} A$ that belongs to at least half of the sets in $\mathcal A$. We present three new formulations of the union-closed conjecture in terms of matrices, graphs, and hypergraphs.https://ajcombinatorics.org/Volume1/V1.03.pdfunion-closed sets conjecturegraphmatrixhypergraph
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title New formulations of the union-closed sets conjecture
title_full New formulations of the union-closed sets conjecture
title_fullStr New formulations of the union-closed sets conjecture
title_full_unstemmed New formulations of the union-closed sets conjecture
title_short New formulations of the union-closed sets conjecture
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url https://ajcombinatorics.org/Volume1/V1.03.pdf
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