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A Resolution of the McCarty Conjecture

Combinatorics 2025-05-08 v2 Probability

Abstract

The McCarty Conjecture states that any McCarty Matrix (an n×nn\times n matrix AA with positive integer entries and each of the 2n2n row and column sums equal to nn), can be additively decomposed into two other matrices, BB and CC, such that BB has row and column sumsets both equal to {1,2,...n}\{1, 2,... n\}, and CC has row and column sumsets both equal to {0,1,...n1}\{0, 1,... n-1\}. The problem can also be formulated in terms of bipartite graphs. In this paper we use probabilistic methods to resolve this conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2503.23182,
  title  = {A Resolution of the McCarty Conjecture},
  author = {Anant Godbole and Lybitina Koene and Grant Shirley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23182},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

There appears to be an error in the proof of the main result

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