On Ryser's conjecture

نویسندگان

  • Penny E. Haxell
  • Alex D. Scott
چکیده

Motivated by an old problem known as Ryser’s Conjecture, we prove that for r = 4 and r = 5, there exists > 0 such that every r-partite r-uniform hypergraph H has a cover of size at most (r − )ν(H), where ν(H) denotes the size of a largest matching in H.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Electr. J. Comb.

دوره 19  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012