A Resolution of the McCarty Conjecture
Combinatorics
2025-05-08 v2 Probability
Abstract
The McCarty Conjecture states that any McCarty Matrix (an matrix with positive integer entries and each of the row and column sums equal to ), can be additively decomposed into two other matrices, and , such that has row and column sumsets both equal to , and has row and column sumsets both equal to . The problem can also be formulated in terms of bipartite graphs. In this paper we use probabilistic methods to resolve this conjecture.
Cite
@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