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I'm trying to generate a list of all possible unions of some sets to generate a topological space from a given basic sets. For ex: Given

{1}, {2}, {4}, {1,3}

I should get

{{}, {1}, {2}, {4}, {1, 2}, {1, 3}, {1, 4}, {2, 4}, {1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {1, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 4}}

I found the following interesting post

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8814059/generating-topological-space-diagram-in-mathematica/8815337

But it includes intersection of sets as well.

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    $\begingroup$ Try the topoCover function from this answer in the post you've linked, For example: topoCover[{{1}, {2}, {4}, {1,3}}] returns {{}, {1}, {2}, {4}, {1, 2}, {1, 3}, {1, 4}, {2, 4}, {1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {1, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 4}}. $\endgroup$ – creidhne Jan 14 at 9:34
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sets = {{1}, {2}, {4}, {1, 3}};

Union[Union @@@ Subsets[sets]]
(*    {{}, {1}, {2}, {4}, {1, 2}, {1, 3}, {1, 4}, {2, 4},
       {1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {1, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 4}}        *)
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