Improved Bounds for Rota's Basis Conjecture

Combinatorica - Tập 39 - Trang 265-272 - 2018
Sally Dong1, Jim Geelen1
1Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Tóm tắt

We prove that, if B1,...,Bn are disjoint bases of a rank-n matroid, then there are at least $$\frac{n}{{7\log n}}$$ disjoint transversals of (B1,...,Bn) that are also bases.

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