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Record W4390833619 · doi:10.1016/j.ejc.2025.104316

Bounded degree graphs and hypergraphs with no full rainbow matchings

2025· preprint· en· W4390833619 on OpenAlexafffund
Ronen Wdowinski

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Combinatorics · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMathematics
TopicLimits and Structures in Graph Theory
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersUniversity of WaterlooAustrian Science Fund
KeywordsRainbowCombinatoricsMatching (statistics)Degree (music)ColoredMathematicsGeneralizationBounded functionClass (philosophy)Enhanced Data Rates for GSM EvolutionHypergraphDiscrete mathematicsComputer scienceArtificial intelligencePhysics

Abstract

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Given a multi-hypergraph G that is edge-colored into color classes E 1 , … , E n , a full rainbow matching is a matching of G that contains exactly one edge from each color class E i . One way to guarantee the existence of a full rainbow matching is to have the size of each color class E i be sufficiently large compared to the maximum degree of G . In this paper, we apply an iterative method to construct edge-colored multi-hypergraphs with a given maximum degree, large color classes, and no full rainbow matchings. First, for every r ≥ 1 and Δ ≥ 2 , we construct edge-colored r -uniform multi-hypergraphs with maximum degree Δ such that each color class has size | E i | ≥ r Δ − 1 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.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.081
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.261
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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