Monthly Archives: November 2022

A Nice Example Related to the Frankl Conjecture

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Gil Kalai

Updates: 1. Peter Frankl brought to my attention that the very same example appeared in a paper by Dynkin and Frankl “Extremal sets of subsets satisfying conditions induced by a graph“. 2. Sam Hopkins gave a lovely reference to Ravi … Continue reading →

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Amazing: Justin Gilmer gave a constant lower bound for the union-closed sets conjecture

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Gil Kalai

Frankl’s conjecture (aka the union closed sets conjecture) asserts that if is a family of subsets of [n] (=: ) which is closed under union then there is an element such that Justin Gilmer just proved an amazing weaker form … Continue reading →

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Barnabás Janzer: Rotation inside convex Kakeya sets

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Gil Kalai

Barnabás Janzer studied the following question: Suppose we have convex body in that contains a copy of a convex body in every orientation. Is it always possible to move any one copy of to another copy of , keeping inside … Continue reading →

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Inaugural address at the Hungarian Academy of Science: The Quantum Computer – A Miracle or Mirage

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Gil Kalai

(Picture: János Pach) The Quantum Computer – A Miracle or Mirage inaugural address of Gil Kalai honorary member of the MTA, Budapest, 15 June, 2022, 15:00 Abstract: On February 12, 2002, Michel Devoret’s lecture entitled “The Quantum Computers: Miracle or … Continue reading →

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