Formalizing Frankl's conjecture: FC-families

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-31374-5_17zbMATH Open1360.68758arXiv1207.3604OpenAlexW1502009249MaRDI QIDQ2907327FDOQ2907327

Authors: Filip Marić, Miodrag Živković, Bojan Vučković 

Publication date: 7 September 2012

Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Frankl's conjecture, formulated in 1979. and still open, states that in every family of sets closed for unions there is an element contained in at least half of the sets. FC-families are families for which it is proved that every union-closed family containing them satisfies the Frankl's condition (e.g., in every union-closed family that contains a one-element set {a}, the element a is contained in at least half of the sets, so families of the form {a} are the simplest FC-families). FC-families play an important role in attacking the Frankl's conjecture, since they enable significant search space pruning. We present a formalization of the computer assisted approach for proving that a family is an FC-family. Proof-by-computation paradigm is used and the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL is used both to check mathematical content, and to perform (verified) combinatorial searches on which the proofs rely. FC-families known in the literature are confirmed, and a new FC-family is discovered.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3604

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extremal set theory (05D05)

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Uses Software

• Isabelle/HOL

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