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On a conjecture of Stein

Combinatorics 2016-05-09 v1

Abstract

Stein proposed the following conjecture: if the edge set of Kn,nK_{n,n} is partitioned into nn sets, each of size nn, then there is a partial rainbow matching of size n1n-1. He proved that there is a partial rainbow matching of size n(1Dnn!)n(1-\frac{D_n}{n!}), where DnD_n is the number of derangements of [n][n]. This means that there is a partial rainbow matching of size about (11e)n(1- \frac{1}{e})n. Using a topological version of Hall's theorem we improve this bound to 23n\frac{2}{3}n.

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@article{arxiv.1605.01982,
  title  = {On a conjecture of Stein},
  author = {Ron Aharoni and Eli Berger and Dani Kotlar and Ran Ziv},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01982},
  year   = {2016}
}
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