The Non-Cancelling-Intersections Conjecture Fails for Left-Linear Trees

📅 2026-08-19
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本文通过非构造性证明,展示了仅使用左线性树时非抵消交集猜想不成立,提出了一个虽然极大但存在的反例。
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First formulated by Amarilli, Monet, and Suciu (arXiv:2401.16210, 2024), the Non-Cancelling Intersections (NCI) conjecture is an open problem in combinatorics stating that any set union can be constructively built from its algebraically non-cancelling intersections using only disjoint unions and subset complements. In the same paper, two orthogonal possible strengthenings are proposed: using only left-linear trees, and using non-trivial intersections only positively or only negatively depending on the sign of their Möbius value. Here we show that using only left-linear trees, the conjecture is false (independent of the other strengthening). Our argument is non-constructive. We prove the existence of a counterexample, though it is of immense size.
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Non-Cancelling-Intersections Conjecture
Left-Linear Trees
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