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Bounded degree graphs and hypergraphs with no full rainbow matchings
Given a multi-hypergraph that is edge-colored into color classes , a full rainbow matching is a matching of that contains
exactly one edge from each color class . One way to guarantee the
existence of a full rainbow matching is to have the size of each color class
be sufficiently large compared to the maximum degree of . In this
paper, we apply a simple iterative method to construct edge-colored
multi-hypergraphs with a given maximum degree, large color classes, and no full
rainbow matchings. First, for every and , we construct
edge-colored -uniform multi-hypergraphs with maximum degree such
that each color class has size and there is no full
rainbow matching, which demonstrates that a theorem of Aharoni, Berger, and
Meshulam (2005) is best possible. Second, we construct properly edge-colored
multigraphs with no full rainbow matchings which disprove conjectures of
Delcourt and Postle (2022). Finally, we apply results on full rainbow matchings
to list edge-colorings and prove that a color degree generalization of Galvin's
theorem (1995) does not hold
Rainbow matchings in properly colored multigraphs
Aharoni and Berger conjectured that in any bipartite multigraph that is properly edge-colored by colors with at least edges of each color there must be a matching that uses each color exactly once. In this paper we consider the same question without the bipartiteness assumption. We show that in any multigraph with edge multiplicities that is properly edge-colored by colors with at least edges of each color there must be a matching of size that uses each color at most once. Read More: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/17M115174