Rainbow matchings and algebras of sets
Combinatorics
2017-03-01 v3 Logic
Abstract
Grinblat (2002) asks the following question in the context of algebras of sets: What is the smallest number such that, if are equivalence relations on a common finite ground set , such that for each there are at least elements of that belong to -equivalence classes of size larger than , then has a rainbow matching---a set of distinct elements , such that is -equivalent to for each ? Grinblat has shown that . He asks whether for all . In this paper we improve the upper bound (for all large enough ) to .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.03671,
title = {Rainbow matchings and algebras of sets},
author = {Gabriel Nivasch and Eran Omri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03671},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Revision taking into account referees' comments. 12 pages, 7 figures