On Kahn's basis conjecture
Matija Bucić, Matthew Kwan, Alexey Pokrovskiy, Benny Sudakov
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Matija Bucić, Matthew Kwan, Alexey Pokrovskiy, Benny Sudakov
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In 1991, Kahn made the following conjecture. For any $n$-dimensional vector space $V$ and any $n\times n$ array of $n^2$ bases of $V$, it is possible to choose a representative vector from each of these bases in such a way that the representatives from each row form a basis and the representatives from each column also form a basis. Rota's basis conjecture can be viewed as a special case of Kahn's conjecture, where for each column, all the bases in that column are the same. Recently the authors showed that in the setting of Rota's basis conjecture it is possible to find suitable representatives in $\left(1/2-o\left(1\right)\right)n$ of the rows. In this companion note we give a slight modification of our arguments which generalises this result to the setting of Kahn's conjecture. Our results also apply to the more general setting of matroids.
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In 1991, Kahn made the following conjecture. For any $n$-dimensional vector space $V$ and any $n\times n$ array of $n^2$ bases of $V$, it is possible to choose a representative vector from each of these bases in such a way that the representatives from each row form a basis and the representatives from each column also form a basis. Rota's basis conjecture can be viewed as a special case of Kahn's conjecture, where for each column, all the bases in that column are the same. Recently the authors showed that in the setting of Rota's basis conjecture it is possible to find suitable representatives in $\left(1/2-o\left(1\right)\right)n$ of the rows. In this companion note we give a slight modification of our arguments which generalises this result to the setting of Kahn's conjecture. Our results also apply to the more general setting of matroids.
Key concepts: Conjecture, Basis (linear algebra), Combinatorics, Mathematics, Column (typography), Matroid, Space (punctuation), Row