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Main Authors: Hollom, Lawrence, Shaw, Benedict Randall
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13709
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author Hollom, Lawrence
Shaw, Benedict Randall
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Shaw, Benedict Randall
contents We provide counterexamples to several conjectures concerning strongly maximal and strongly minimal structures in infinite graphs and hypergraphs. In particular, we construct 3-uniform hypergraphs without strongly maximal matchings and without strongly minimal covers, and from our construction for covers we build a graph with no strongly minimal colouring. We also consider several refinements of these problems. Our results resolve conjectures and questions of Aharoni; Aharoni and Berger; Aharoni, Berger, Georgakopoulos, and Sprüssel; Aharoni and Korman; and Tardos.
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spellingShingle Counterexamples to conjectures on strong maximality and minimality
Hollom, Lawrence
Shaw, Benedict Randall
Combinatorics
We provide counterexamples to several conjectures concerning strongly maximal and strongly minimal structures in infinite graphs and hypergraphs. In particular, we construct 3-uniform hypergraphs without strongly maximal matchings and without strongly minimal covers, and from our construction for covers we build a graph with no strongly minimal colouring. We also consider several refinements of these problems. Our results resolve conjectures and questions of Aharoni; Aharoni and Berger; Aharoni, Berger, Georgakopoulos, and Sprüssel; Aharoni and Korman; and Tardos.
title Counterexamples to conjectures on strong maximality and minimality
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13709