Abstract

Consider a hypergraph of rank r > 2 with m edges, independence number α and edge cover number ρ . We prove the inequality ρ ⩽ ( r - 2 ) m + α r - 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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