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On ideal minimally non-packing clutters

Combinatorics 2012-10-18 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We consider the following conjecture proposed by Cornu\'ejols, Guenin and Margot: every ideal minimally non-packing clutter has a transversal of size 2. For a clutter C, the tilde clutter is the set of hyperedges of C which intersect any minimum transversal in exactly one element. We divide the (non-)existence problem of an ideal minimally non-packing clutter D into two steps. In the first step, we give necessary conditions for C = the tilde clutter of D when a clutter D is an ideal minimally non-packing clutter. In the second step, for a clutter C satisfying the conditions in the first step, we consider whether C has an ideal minimally non-packing clutter D with C= the tilde clutter of D. We show that the clutter of a combinatorial affine plane satisfies the conditions in the first step. Moreover, we show that the clutter of a combinatorial affine plane does not have any ideal minimally non-packing clutter of blocking number at least 3.

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@article{arxiv.1210.4753,
  title  = {On ideal minimally non-packing clutters},
  author = {Kenji Kashiwabara and Tadashi Sakuma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4753},
  year   = {2012}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures

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