Large rainbow matchings in general graphs

Ron Aharoni; Eli Berger; Maria Chudnovsky; David Howard; Paul Seymour

doi:10.1016/j.ejc.2019.01.012

Large rainbow matchings in general graphs

Ron Aharoni, Eli Berger, Maria Chudnovsky, David Howard, Paul Seymour

Department of Mathematics

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By a theorem of Drisko, any 2n−1 matchings of size n in a bipartite graph have a rainbow matching of size n. Inspired by results and discussion of Barát, Gyárfás and Sárközy, we conjecture that if n is odd then the same is true also in general graphs, and that if n is even then 2n matchings of size n suffice. We prove that any 3n−2 matchings of size n have a rainbow matching of size n.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	222-227
Number of pages	6
Journal	European Journal of Combinatorics
Volume	79
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2019.01.012
State	Published - Jun 2019

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