Second covering allocation conjecture for Young diagrams

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Let YY be a Young diagram and let H(Y)H(Y) be the associated 3-partite 3-uniform hypergraph. Write Y|Y| for the number of cells of YY, let τ(2)(H(Y))\tau^{(2)}(H(Y)) denote its second covering number, and let an allocation be the coarse filling notion used in the paper. Second covering allocation conjecture. If

τ(2)(H(Y))=Y,\tau^{(2)}(H(Y))=|Y|,

then YY has an allocation. The paper states that this is equivalent to the Wide Partition Conjecture and the allocation conjecture. A weaker covering-number equality is known for wide diagrams, but the implication to an allocation remains open.

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Jack Allsop, Daniel Kotlar and Ian Wanless, “Outline Rectangles, Allocations, and Latin Young Diagrams”, arXiv:2511.10548 (2025).

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