The Berge-F\"uredi conjecture on the chromatic index of hypergraphs with large hyperedges

Abstract

This paper is concerned with two conjectures which are intimately related. The first is a generalization to hypergraphs of Vizing's Theorem on the chromatic index of a graph and the second is the well-known conjecture of Erd\H{o}s, Faber and Lov\'asz which deals with the problem of coloring a family of cliques intersecting in at most one vertex. We are led to study a special class of uniform and linear hypergraphs for which a number of properties are established.