Reduction of Rota's Basis Conjecture to a Problem on Three Bases
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چکیده
It is shown that Rota’s basis conjecture follows from a similar conjecture that involves only three bases instead of n bases. Two counterexamples to the analogous conjecture involving only two bases are presented. [Note added 18 May 2005: Colin McDiarmid found a counterxample to Conjecture 2 after reading a previous version of this paper. See the end of the paper for details.]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- SIAM J. Discrete Math.
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009