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The union-closed sets conjecture almost holds for almost all random bipartite graphs

2013/02/28 by Bruhn, Henning, Schaudt, Oliver
#Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1302.7141

Abstract

Frankl's union-closed sets conjecture states that in every finite union-closed set of sets, there is an element that is contained in at least half of the member-sets (provided there are at least two members). The conjecture has an equivalent formulation in terms of graphs: In every bipartite graph with least one edge, both colour classes contain a vertex belonging to at most half of the maximal stable sets. We prove that, for every fixed edge-probability, almost every random bipartite graph almost satisfies Frankl's conjecture.

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