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A BK inequality for random matchings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2022

András Mészáros*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Abstract

Let $G=(S,T,E)$ be a bipartite graph. For a matching $M$ of $G$, let $V(M)$ be the set of vertices covered by $M$, and let $B(M)$ be the symmetric difference of $V(M)$ and $S$. We prove that if $M$ is a uniform random matching of $G$, then $B(M)$ satisfies the BK inequality for increasing events.

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Figure 1. The first figure describes a tuple $i=(W,K,L,R)\in I$: the vertices of $W$ are coloured black; the bold edges correspond to the edges of $K\cup L\cup R$; the labels show the edges of the matchings $K,L$ and the decomposition of $R$ into two paths $P_1$ and $P_2$, and the two colour classes $S$ and $T$ of the bipartite graphs $G$. Note that the left most edge belongs to both $K$ and $L$. In the second figure vertices of $H_i$ are coloured black; the edges of $R=P_1\cup P_2$ are bold; the labels show the indexing of the vertices of $H_i$, and also the decomposition of the paths $P_1$ and $P_2$ into the matchings $M_{1,0},M_{1,1}$ and $M_{2,0},M_{2,1}$. The vertical edges are in $M_{1,0}$ and $M_{2,0}$, the tilted edges are in $M_{1,1}$ and $M_{2,1}$. (Of course, depending on the linear ordering of the edges, the labels of $M_{1,0}$ and $M_{1,1}$ can be switched, we omitted the linear ordering from these figures.) We used a grey frame to indicate the elements of $U_i$. In the last four rows, the bold edges correspond to the matchings $C_{i,\omega }$ and $D_{i,\omega }$ as indicated. The vertices in $B(C_{i,\omega })$ (and $B(D_{i,\omega })$) are coloured black. The grey frame again contains the vertices of $U_i$.