About to spend an afternoon on the Union Closed Sets Conjecture.

Anyone else?

#math #RecreationalMathematics #unionclosed #unionclosedconjecture

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Mark Reid · @mdreid
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Some progress on the !

Justin Gilmer used some information theoretic arguments to establish the first constant lower bound for the fraction of sets in a family that contain the same element. Initially 1%, now 38% but it looks like some new ideas are required to get to the 50% of the conjecture.

Quanta article: quantamagazine.org/long-out-of

Gilmer’s paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.09055

#franklconjecture #unionclosed

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RyanCoordinator · @ryancoordinator
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