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An improved bound on the sizes of matchings guaranteeing a rainbow matching

Combinatorics 2015-03-03 v1

Abstract

A conjecture by Aharoni and Berger states that every family of nn matchings of size n+1n+1 in a bipartite multigraph contains a rainbow matching of size nn. In this paper we prove that matching sizes of (3/2+o(1))n(3/2 + o(1)) n suffice to guarantee such a rainbow matching, which is asymptotically the same bound as the best known one in case we only aim to find a rainbow matching of size n1n-1. This improves previous results by Aharoni, Charbit and Howard, and Kotlar and Ziv.

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@article{arxiv.1503.00438,
  title  = {An improved bound on the sizes of matchings guaranteeing a rainbow matching},
  author = {Dennis Clemens and Julia Ehrenmüller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00438},
  year   = {2015}
}