Weighted fractional matching-cover conjecture for matroid intersections

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Let L∈Dk\mathcal{L}\in\mathcal{D}^k be a family of kk matroids on VV, and let w∈R≥0Vw\in\mathbb{R}_{\ge0}^V. Weighted fractional matching-cover conjecture. One has

τw∗(L)≤(k−1)νw(L).\tau_w^*(\mathcal{L})\le (k-1)\nu_w(\mathcal{L}).

This is presented as the weighted generalization of the integral matching-cover gap conjecture. It is proved in the paper for intersections of partition matroids, while the general case remains open.

References

Primary source

Ron Aharoni, Eli Berger, He Guo and Dani Kotlar, “Coloring, list coloring, and fractional coloring in intersections of matroids”, arXiv:2407.08789 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1402.2064.

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