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An improved lower bound for the union-closed set conjecture
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Gilmer has recently shown that in any nonempty union-closed family $\mathcal F$ of subsets of a finite set, there exists an element contained in at least a proportion $.01$ of the sets of $\mathcal F$. We improve the proportion from $.01$ to $\frac{ 3 -\sqrt{5}}{2} \approx .38$ in this result. An improvement to $\frac{1}{2}$ would be the Frankl union-closed set conjecture. We follow Gilmer's method, replacing one key estimate by a sharp estimate. We then suggest a new addition to this method and sketch a proof that it can obtain a constant strictly greater than $\frac{ 3 -\sqrt{5}}{2} $. We also disprove a conjecture of Gilmer that would have implied the union-closed set conjecture.
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