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Near Perfect Matchings in $k$-uniform Hypergraphs II

Combinatorics 2016-11-02 v2

Abstract

Suppose knk\nmid n and HH is an nn-vertex kk-uniform hypergraph. A near perfect matching in HH is a matching of size n/k\lfloor n/k\rfloor. We give a divisibility barrier construction that prevents the existence of near perfect matchings in HH. This generalizes the divisibility barrier for perfect matchings. We give a conjecture on the minimum dd-degree threshold forcing a (near) perfect matching in HH which generalizes a well-known conjecture on perfect matchings. We also verify our conjecture in various cases. Our proof makes use of the lattice-based absorbing method that the author used recently to solve two other problems on matching and tilings for hypergraphs.

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@article{arxiv.1507.02362,
  title  = {Near Perfect Matchings in $k$-uniform Hypergraphs II},
  author = {Jie Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02362},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, 0 figure, Corrected a very minor error in Lemma 3.4