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Rainbow matchings in bipartite multigraphs

Combinatorics 2016-02-22 v3

Abstract

Suppose that kk is a non-negative integer and a bipartite multigraph GG is the union of N=k+2k+1n(k+1)N=\left\lfloor \frac{k+2}{k+1}n\right\rfloor -(k+1) matchings M1,,MNM_1,\dots,M_N, each of size nn. We show that GG has a rainbow matching of size nkn-k, i.e. a matching of size nkn-k with all edges coming from different MiM_i's. Several choices of parameters relate to known results and conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.1505.01779,
  title  = {Rainbow matchings in bipartite multigraphs},
  author = {János Barát and András Gyárfás and Gábor N. Sárközy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01779},
  year   = {2016}
}
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