On rainbow matchings for hypergraphs
Combinatorics
2016-11-08 v1
Abstract
For any posotive integer m, let [m]:={1,…,m}. Let n,k,t be positive integers. Aharoni and Howard conjectured that if, for i∈[t], Fi⊂[n]k:={(a1,…,ak):aj∈[n]\mboxforj∈[k]} and ∣Fi∣>(t−1)nk−1, then there exist M⊆[n]k such that ∣M∣=t and ∣M∩Fi∣=1 for i∈[t] We show that this conjecture holds when n≥3(k−1)(t−1). Let n,t,k1≥k2≥…≥kt be positive integers. Huang, Loh and Sudakov asked for the maximum Πi=1t∣Ri∣ over all R={R1,…,Rt} such that each Ri is a collection of ki-subsets of [n] for which there does not exist a collection M of subsets of [n] such that ∣M∣=t and ∣M∩Ri∣=1 for i∈[t] %and R does not admit a rainbow matching. We show that for sufficiently large n with ∑i=1tki≤n(1−(4klnn/n)1/k), ∏i=1t∣Ri∣≤(k1−1n−1)(k2−1n−1)∏i=3t(kin). This bound is tight.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.01735,
title = {On rainbow matchings for hypergraphs},
author = {Hongliang Lu and Xingxing Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01735},
year = {2016}
}