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Existences of rainbow matchings and rainbow matching covers

Combinatorics 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

Let GG be an edge-coloured graph. A rainbow subgraph in GG is a subgraph such that its edges have distinct colours. The minimum colour degree δc(G)\delta^c(G) of GG is the smallest number of distinct colours on the edges incident with a vertex of GG. We show that every edge-coloured graph GG on n7k/2+2n\geq 7k/2+2 vertices with δc(G)k\delta^c(G) \geq k contains a rainbow matching of size at least kk, which improves the previous result for k10k \ge 10. Let Δmon(G)\Delta_{\text{mon}}(G) be the maximum number of edges of the same colour incident with a vertex of GG. We also prove that if t11t \ge 11 and Δmon(G)t\Delta_{\text{mon}}(G) \le t, then GG can be edge-decomposed into at most tn/2\lfloor tn/2 \rfloor rainbow matchings. This result is sharp and improves a result of LeSaulnier and West.

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@article{arxiv.1506.03218,
  title  = {Existences of rainbow matchings and rainbow matching covers},
  author = {Allan Lo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03218},
  year   = {2015}
}