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Rota's Basis Conjecture for Matroids with Density Close to One

Combinatorics 2022-07-01 v3

Abstract

Rota's basis conjecture (RBC) states that given a collection B of n bases in a matroid M of rank n, one can always find n disjoint rainbow bases with respect to B. We show that if M is a matroid having n + k elements, then one can construct n - k^3 disjoint rainbow bases, where b is a constant depending only on k.

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@article{arxiv.2107.07024,
  title  = {Rota's Basis Conjecture for Matroids with Density Close to One},
  author = {Sean McGuinness},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07024},
  year   = {2022}
}
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