Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4650706 | Discrete Mathematics | 2008 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Consider a hypergraph of rank r>2r>2 with mm edges, independence number αα and edge cover number ρρ. We prove the inequalityρ⩽(r-2)m+αr-1.One application of this inequality is a special case of a conjecture of Aharoni and the first author extending Ryser's Conjecture to matroids.
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Authors
Eli Berger, Ran Ziv,