Gyárfás's conjecture on few-coloured matchings in uniform hypergraphs

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Let rr, ss, tt, kk be positive integers. A tt-colouring assigns one of tt colours to every edge of a complete rr-uniform hypergraph, and an ss-coloured matching of size kk is a matching of kk edges whose edges use at most ss colours. Gyárfás's conjecture. For any tt-colouring of the complete rr-uniform hypergraph on

nkr+(k1)(ts)1+r++rs1n \geq kr + \left\lfloor \frac{(k-1)(t-s)}{1+r+\dots+r^{s-1}} \right\rfloor

vertices, there exists an ss-coloured matching of size kk. The conjecture generalizes the known graph case to complete uniform hypergraphs; the paper proves the first nontrivial case for 33-uniform hypergraphs and 33 colours, supporting the conjecture.

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Tamás Terpai, “Large 2-coloured matchings in 3-coloured complete hypergraphs”, arXiv:1103.2326 (2012).

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