A note on intersecting hypergraphs with large cover number

Abstract

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, Barat, Pokrovskiy and Szabo, 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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