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Aharoni and Berger conjectured that every bipartite graph which is the union of n matchings of size n + 1 contains a rainbow matching of size n. This conjecture is a generalization of several old conjectures of Ryser, Brualdi, and Stein…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Alexey Pokrovskiy

Given a graph $G$, let $f_{G}(n,m)$ be the minimal number $k$ such that every $k$ independent $n$-sets in $G$ have a rainbow $m$-set. Let $\mathcal{D}(2)$ be the family of all graphs with maximum degree at most two. Aharoni et al. (2019)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou , Jun Gao , Boyuan Liu , Zhi Yin

Let $n,m$ be integers such that $1\leq m\leq (n-2)/2$ and let $[n]=\{1,\ldots,n\}$. Let $\mathcal{G}=\{G_1,\ldots,G_{m+1}\}$ be a family of graphs on the same vertex set $[n]$. In this paper, we prove that if for any $i\in [m+1]$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Mingyang Guo , Hongliang Lu , Xinxin Ma , Xiao Ma

Let [n]=\{1,\,2,...,\,n\} be colored in k colors. A rainbow AP(k) in [n] is a k term arithmetic progression whose elements have diferent colors. Conlon, Jungic and Radoicic [10] had shown that there exists an equinumerous 4-coloring of [4n]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Subhajit Jana , Pratulananda Das

K\"{u}hn, Osthus, and Treglown and, independently, Khan proved that if $H$ is a $3$-uniform hypergraph with $n$ vertices such that $n\in 3\mathbb{Z}$ and large, and $\delta_1(H)>{n-1\choose 2}-{2n/3\choose 2}$, then $H$ contains a perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Hongliang Lu , Xingxing Yu , Xiaofan Yuan

Drisko proved that $2n-1$ matchings of size $n$ in a bipartite graph have a rainbow matching of size $n$. For general graphs it is conjectured that $2n$ matchings suffice for this purpose (and that $2n-1$ matchings suffice when $n$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Ron Aharoni , Joseph Briggs , Jinha Kim , Minki Kim

We prove that any family $E_1, \ldots , E_{\lceil rn \rceil}$ of (not necessarily distinct) sets of edges in an $r$-uniform hypergraph, each having a fractional matching of size $n$, has a rainbow fractional matching of size $n$ (that is, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Ron Aharoni , Ron Holzman , Zilin Jiang

Suppose that $k$ is a non-negative integer and a bipartite multigraph $G$ is the union of $$N=\left\lfloor \frac{k+2}{k+1}n\right\rfloor -(k+1)$$ matchings $M_1,\dots,M_N$, each of size $n$. We show that $G$ has a rainbow matching of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-22 János Barát , András Gyárfás , Gábor N. Sárközy

We prove a common generalization of two results, one on rainbow fractional matchings and one on rainbow sets in the intersection of two matroids: Given $d = r \lceil k \rceil - r + 1$ functions of size (=sum of values) $k$ that are all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Joseph Briggs , Minki Kim

Let $n, r, s$ be three positive integers such that $n\geq 2s+5$. Let $K_r$ denote the complete graph of order $r$. Given a graph $F$, the anti-Ramsey number $ar(n,F)$ is defined as the minimum number $C$ such that any edge-coloring of $K_n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Xuechun Zhang , Hongliang Lu

Colour the edges of the complete graph with vertex set $\{1, 2, \dotsc, n\}$ with an arbitrary number of colours. What is the smallest integer $f(l,k)$ such that if $n > f(l,k)$ then there must exist a monotone monochromatic path of length…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-02 António Girão , Freddie Illingworth , Lukas Michel , Michael Savery , Alex Scott

We show that for any integer $t\geq 2$, every properly edge-coloured graph on $n$ vertices with more than $n^{1+o(1)}$ edges contains a rainbow subdivision of $K_t$. Note that this bound on the number of edges is sharp up to the $o(1)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Tao Jiang , Abhishek Methuku , Liana Yepremyan

Stein proposed the following conjecture: if the edge set of $K_{n,n}$ is partitioned into $n$ sets, each of size $n$, then there is a partial rainbow matching of size $n-1$. He proved that there is a partial rainbow matching of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Ron Aharoni , Eli Berger , Dani Kotlar , Ran Ziv

For an $r$-graph $F$ and integers $n,t$ satisfying $t \le n/v(F)$, let $\mathrm{ar}(n,tF)$ denote the minimum integer $N$ such that every edge-coloring of $K_{n}^{r}$ using $N$ colors contains a rainbow copy of $tF$, where $tF$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Jinghua Deng , Jianfeng Hou , Xizhi Liu , Caihong Yang

A natural question, inspired by the famous Ryser-Brualdi-Stein Conjecture, is to determine the largest positive integer $g(r,n)$ such that every collection of $n$ matchings, each of size $n$, in an $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Candida Bowtell , Andrea Freschi , Gal Kronenberg , Jun Yan

We study values of k for which the interval (kn,(k+1)n) contains a prime for every n>1. We prove that the list of such integers k includes k=1,2,3,5,9,14, and no others, at least for k<=50,000,000. For every known k of this list, we give a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Vladimir Shevelev , Charles R. Greathouse , Peter J. C. Moses

Let $k$ and $n$ be two integers, with $k\geq 3$, $n\equiv 0\pmod k$, and $n$ sufficiently large. We determine the $(k-1)$-degree threshold for the existence of a rainbow perfect matchings in $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph. This implies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Hongliang Lu , Yan Wang , Xingxing Yu

Let $f(n)$ be the smallest number such that every collection of $n$ matchings, each of size at least $f(n)$, in a bipartite graph, has a full rainbow matching. Generalizing famous conjectures of Ryser, Brualdi and Stein, Aharoni and Berger…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Ron Aharoni , Dani Kotlar , Ran Ziv

Let $F(n,k)$ ($f(n,k)$) denote the maximum possible size of the smallest color class in a (partial) $k$-coloring of the Boolean lattice $B_n$ that does not admit a rainbow antichain of size $k$. The value of $F(n,3)$ and $f(n,2)$ has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Balázs Patkós

Given sets $F_1, \ldots ,F_n$, a {\em partial rainbow function} is a partial choice function of the sets $F_i$. A {\em partial rainbow set} is the range of a partial rainbow function. Aharoni and Berger \cite{AhBer} conjectured that if $M$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Ron Aharoni , Daniel Kotlar , Ran Ziv