Nonintersecting Ryser Hypergraphs

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Abstract: A famous conjecture of Ryser states that every r-partite hypergraph has vertex cover number at most r−1 times the matching number. In recent years, hypergraphs meeting this conjectured bound, known as r-Ryser hypergraphs, have been studied extensively. It was recently proved by Haxell, Narins and Szab'{o} that all 3-Ryser hypergraphs with matching number u>1 are essentially obtained by taking u disjoint copies of intersecting 3-Ryser hypergraphs. Abu-Khazneh showed that such a characterisation is false for r=4 by giving a computer generated example of a 4-Ryser hypergraph with u=2 whose vertex set cannot be partitioned into two sets such that we have an intersecting 4-Ryser hypergraph on each of these parts. Here we construct new infinite families of r-Ryser hypergraphs, for any given matching number u>1, that do not contain two vertex disjoint intersecting r-Ryser subhypergraphs.












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