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A better bound on the size of rainbow matchings

Combinatorics 2021-02-22 v3

Abstract

Aharoni and Howard conjectured that, for positive integers n,k,tn,k,t with nkn\ge k and ntn\ge t, if F1,,Ft([n]k)F_1,\ldots, F_t\subseteq {[n]\choose k} such that Fi>(nk)(nt+1k)|F_i|>{n\choose k}-{n-t+1\choose k} for i[t]i\in [t] then there exist eiFie_i\in F_i for i[t]i\in [t] such that e1,,ete_1,\ldots,e_t are pairwise disjoint. Huang, Loh, and Sudakov proved this conjecture for t<n/(3k2)t<n/(3k^2). In this paper, we show that this conjecture holds for tn/(2k)t\le n/(2k) and nn sufficiently large.

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@article{arxiv.2004.12561,
  title  = {A better bound on the size of rainbow matchings},
  author = {Hongliang Lu and Yan Wang and Xingxing Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.12561},
  year   = {2021}
}