Fair representation in the intersection of two matroids
Combinatorics
2017-01-06 v3
Abstract
For a simplicial complex denote by the minimal number of edges from needed to cover the ground set. If is a matroid then for every partition of the ground set there exists a set meeting each in at least elements. We conjecture that a slightly weaker result is true for the intersections of two matroids: if , where are matroids on the same ground set and , then for every partition of the ground set there exists a set meeting each in at least elements. We prove this for a partition into two sets.
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@article{arxiv.1612.07652,
title = {Fair representation in the intersection of two matroids},
author = {Ron Aharoni and Eli Berger and Dani Kotlar and Ran Ziv},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07652},
year = {2017}
}