A Note on Intersecting Hypergraphs with Large Cover Number

نویسندگان

  • Penny E. Haxell
  • Alex D. Scott
چکیده

We give a construction of r-partite r-uniform intersecting hypergraphs with cover number at least r − 4 for all but finitely many r. This answers a question of Abu-Khazneh, Barát, Pokrovskiy and Szabó, and shows that a long-standing unsolved conjecture due to Ryser is close to being best possible for every value of r.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Electr. J. Comb.

دوره 24  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017