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A note on matchings and co-matchings in bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2026-07-27 v1

Abstract

A class of bipartite graphs is said to have the strong Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal property if there exists ε>0\varepsilon > 0 such that every graph ((A,B),E)((A, B), E) in the class contains a complete or empty induced subgraph with parts XAX \subseteq A, YBY \subseteq B where XεA|X| \ge \varepsilon|A| and YεB|Y| \ge \varepsilon|B|. Scott, Seymour and Spirkl \cite{scott2023} proved that it is enough to forbid a forest and the bipartite complement of a forest. In this paper, we provide quantitative bounds on ε\varepsilon when we restrict to matchings.

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@article{arxiv.2607.23928,
  title  = {A note on matchings and co-matchings in bipartite graphs},
  author = {Sida Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.23928},
  year   = {2026}
}