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In their famous 1974 paper introducing the local lemma, Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz posed a question-later referred by Erd\H{o}s as one of his three favorite open problems: What is the minimum number of edges in an $r$-uniform, intersecting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Matija Bucić , Vanshika Jain , Varun Sivashankar

Ryser's Conjecture states that for any $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph the vertex cover number is at most $r-1$ times the matching number. This conjecture is only known to be true for $r\leq 3$. For intersecting hypergraphs, Ryser's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Ahmad Abu-Khazneh , Alexey Pokrovskiy

In 1973 P. Erd\H{o}s and L. Lov\'asz noticed that any hypergraph whose edges are pairwise intersecting has chromatic number 2 or 3. In the first case, such hypergraph may have any number of edges. However, Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-11 D. D. Cherkashin , A. B. Kulikov , A. M. Raigorodskii

For a hypergraph $H$, define its intersection spectrum $I(H)$ as the set of all intersection sizes $|E\cap F|$ of distinct edges $E,F\in E(H)$. In their seminal paper from 1973 which introduced the local lemma, Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz asked:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Matija Bucić , Stefan Glock , Benny Sudakov

Erd\H{o}s and Lov'asz asked whether there exists a "3-critical" 3-uniform hypergraph in which every vertex has degree at least 7. The original formulation does not specify what 3-critical means, and two non-equivalent notions have appeared…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ruiliang Li

Ryser's Conjecture states that for any $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph, the vertex cover number is at most $r{-}1$ times the matching number. This conjecture is only known to be true for $r\leq 3$ in general and for $r\leq 5$ if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Ahmad Abu-Khazneh , János Barát , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Tibor Szabó

A famous conjecture of Erd\H{o}s asserts that for $k\ge 3$, the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph without $s+1$ pairwise disjoint edges is $\max\{\binom{n}{k}-\binom{n-s}{k},\binom{sk+k-1}{k}\}$. This problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Peter Frankl , Hongliang Lu , Jie Ma , Yuze Wu

Ryser conjectured that $\tau\le(r-1)\nu$ for $r$-partite hypergraphs, where $\tau$ is the covering number and $\nu$ is the matching number. We prove this conjecture for $r\le9$ in the special case of linear intersecting hypergraphs, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Nevena Francetić , Sarada Herke , Brendan D. McKay , Ian M. Wanless

A well-known conjecture, often attributed to Ryser, states that the cover number of an $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph is at most $r - 1$ times larger than its matching number. Despite considerable effort, particularly in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Anurag Bishnoi , Shagnik Das , Patrick Morris , Tibor Szabó

Let $\tau(\mathcal{H})$ be the cover number and $\nu(\mathcal{H})$ be the matching number of a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$. Ryser conjectured that every $r$-partite hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ satisfies the inequality $\tau(\mathcal{H}) \leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-21 Toufik Mansour , Chunwei Song , Raphael Yuster

The problem of determining extremal hypergraphs containing at most r isomorphic copies of some element of a given hypergraph family was first studied by Boros et al. in 2001. There are not many hypergraph families for which exact results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-18 Yeow Meng Chee , Alan C. H. Ling

Let $\mathcal{H}=(V,\mathcal{E})$ be an $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices and fix a positive integer $k$ such that $1\le k\le r$. A $k$-\emph{matching} of $\mathcal{H}$ is a collection of edges $\mathcal{M}\subset \mathcal{E}$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Christos Pelekis , Israel Rocha

A central theme in extremal combinatorics is the study of the maximum number of edges in an $r$-uniform hypergraph ($r$-graph) with matching number at most $s$ (the Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture) or with pairwise intersection at least $t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Peter Frankl , Jiaxi Nie

A $k$-uniform hypergraph is $s$-almost intersecting if every edge is disjoint from exactly $s$ other edges. Gerbner, Lemons, Palmer, Patk\'os and Sz\'ecsi conjectured that for every $k$, and $s>s_0(k)$, every $k$-uniform $s$-almost…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Alex Scott , Elizabeth Wilmer

In this paper we study the maximum number of hyperedges which may be in an $r$-uniform hypergraph under the restriction that no pair of vertices has more than $t$ Berge paths of length $k$ between them. When $r=t=2$, this is the even-cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Zhiyang He , Michael Tait

Let $ H = (V,E) $ be a hypergraph. By the chromatic number of a hypergraph $ H = (V,E) $ we mean the minimum number $\chi(H)$ of colors needed to paint all the vertices in $ V $ so that any edge $ e \in E $ contains at least two vertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Danila D. Cherkashin

A well known observation of Lov\'asz is that if a hypergraph is not $2$-colorable, then at least one pair of its edges intersect at a single vertex. %This very simple criterion turned out to be extremly useful . In this short paper we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Asaf Ferber , Asaf Shapira

For $n\geq 3$, let $r=r(n)\geq 3$ be an integer. A hypergraph is $r$-uniform if each edge is a set of $r$ vertices, and is said to be linear if two edges intersect in at most one vertex. In this paper, the number of linear $r$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Brendan D. McKay , Fang Tian

The extension of an $r$-uniform hypergraph $G$ is obtained from it by adding for every pair of vertices of $G$, which is not covered by an edge in $G$, an extra edge containing this pair and $(r-2)$ new vertices. In this paper we determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Adam Bene Watts , Sergey Norin , Liana Yepremyan

The hypergraph Zarankiewicz's problem, introduced by Erd\H{o}s in 1964, asks for the maximum number of hyperedges in an $r$-partite hypergraph with $n$ vertices in each part that does not contain a copy of $K_{t,t,\ldots,t}$. Erd\H{o}s…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Timothy M. Chan , Chaya Keller , Shakhar Smorodinsky
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