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On rainbow matchings for hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2016-11-08 v1

Abstract

For any posotive integer mm, let [m]:={1,,m}[m]:=\{1,\ldots,m\}. Let n,k,tn,k,t be positive integers. Aharoni and Howard conjectured that if, for i[t]i\in [t], Fi[n]k:={(a1,,ak):aj[n]\mboxforj[k]}\mathcal{F}_i\subset[n]^k:= \{(a_1,\ldots,a_k): a_j\in [n] \mbox{ for } j\in [k]\} and Fi>(t1)nk1|\mathcal{F}_i|>(t-1)n^{k-1}, then there exist M[n]kM\subseteq [n]^k such that M=t|M|=t and MFi=1|M\cap \mathcal{F}_i|=1 for i[t]i\in [t] We show that this conjecture holds when n3(k1)(t1)n\geq 3(k-1)(t-1). Let n,t,k1k2ktn, t, k_1\ge k_2\geq \ldots\geq k_t be positive integers. Huang, Loh and Sudakov asked for the maximum Πi=1tRi\Pi_{i=1}^t |{\cal R}_i| over all R={R1,,Rt}{\cal R}=\{{\cal R}_1, \ldots ,{\cal R}_t\} such that each Ri{\cal R}_i is a collection of kik_i-subsets of [n][n] for which there does not exist a collection MM of subsets of [n][n] such that M=t|M|=t and MRi=1|M\cap \mathcal{R}_i|=1 for i[t]i\in [t] %and R{\cal R} does not admit a rainbow matching. We show that for sufficiently large nn with i=1tkin(1(4klnn/n)1/k)\sum_{i=1}^t k_i\leq n(1-(4k\ln n/n)^{1/k}) , i=1tRi(n1k11)(n1k21)i=3t(nki)\prod_{i=1}^t |\mathcal{R}_i|\leq {n-1\choose k_1-1}{n-1\choose k_2-1}\prod_{i=3}^{t}{n\choose k_i}. This bound is tight.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01735,
  title  = {On rainbow matchings for hypergraphs},
  author = {Hongliang Lu and Xingxing Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01735},
  year   = {2016}
}
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