Families with no perfect matchings
Combinatorics
2020-08-24 v2
Abstract
We consider families of -subsets of , where is a multiple of , which have no perfect matching. An equivalent condition for a family to have no perfect matching is for there to be a blocking set, which is a set of elements of that cannot be covered by disjoint sets in . We are specifically interested in the largest possible size of a family with no perfect matching and no blocking set of size less than . Frankl resolved the case of families with no singleton blocking set (in other words, the case) for sufficiently large and conjectured an optimal construction for general . Though Frankl's construction fails to be optimal for , we show that the construction is optimal whenever and is sufficiently large.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2008.08792,
title = {Families with no perfect matchings},
author = {Mihir Singhal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08792},
year = {2020}
}