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Birkhoff's theorem for hypergraphs

Birkhoff's theorem says that, in a bipartite graph $G$ in which both sides have size $n$, any fractional matching of size $n$ can be presented as a convex combination of integral matchings of size $n$ ...
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Can we represent partitions by mutually parallel lines in the plane?

Lately I have become interested in the following idea: Suppose $n$ is a positive integer and $[n]=\{1,2,3,...,n\}$. Suppose we have 3 distinct partitions $b$, $g$, and $r$ of $[n]$. Assume that the ...
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Forcing $A_1x,\dotsc,A_Kx$ to lie in a proper subspace

(This is a re-worked version of a question I asked several days ago.) Let $J$ be the all-one matrix with $m$ rows and $n$ columns, and suppose that $J=A_1+\dotsb+A_K$ is a decomposition of $J$ into a ...