Brouwer's matching conjecture for Steiner triple systems

A Steiner triple system of order nn is a 33-uniform hypergraph on nn vertices in which every pair of vertices lies in exactly one edge. A matching is a set of pairwise vertex-disjoint edges. Brouwer's conjecture. Every Steiner triple system of order nn has a matching of at least

n43\frac{n-4}{3}

edges. The conjecture is known for sufficiently large nn, but is not stated as resolved for all orders in the paper.

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Primary source

Richard Montgomery, “Transversals in Latin Squares”, arXiv:2406.19873 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2005.00526.

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