Aharoni-Berger conjecture for graphs

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Let M1,…,MnM_1,\dots,M_n be matchings of size nn in a graph. A rainbow matching is a matching whose edges can be assigned distinct indices ii so that each edge belongs to MiM_i.

Aharoni-Berger conjecture. Every collection of nn matchings of size nn in a graph admits a rainbow matching of size n−1n-1.

This drops the bipartiteness requirement from the preceding conjecture. The n−1n-1 bound is best possible, as shown by the cycle construction described in the source, but the general assertion remains open in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Candida Bowtell, Andrea Freschi, Gal Kronenberg and Jun Yan, “A note on improved bounds for hypergraph rainbow matching problems”, arXiv:2501.03216 (2025).

Additional references

18 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2406.19873, arXiv:2204.08981, arXiv:2108.07734, arXiv:2012.14992, arXiv:2011.04650, arXiv:2003.08247, arXiv:2002.08974, arXiv:1710.04807, arXiv:1710.03041, arXiv:1709.02665, arXiv:1609.06346, arXiv:1601.00943, and 5 more.

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