DMTCS Proceedings, 2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05)

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DMTCS Conference vol AE (2005), pp. 157-160

DMTCS

2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05)

Stefan Felsner (ed.)

DMTCS Conference Volume AE (2005), pp. 157-160


author: Matěj Stehlík
title: Connected
τ
-critical hypergraphs of minimal size
keywords:
τ
-critical hypergraph,
χ
-critical
3
-chromatic hypergraph
abstract: A hypergraph
H
is
τ
-critical if
τ(
H
-E) < τ(
H
)
for every edge
E ∈
H
, where
τ(
H
)
denotes the transversal number of
H
. It can be shown that a connected
τ
-critical hypergraph
H
has at least
2τ(
H
)-1
edges; this generalises a classical theorem of Gallai on
χ
-vertex-critical graphs with connected complements. In this paper we study connected
τ
-critical hypergraphs
H
with exactly
2τ(
H
)-1
edges. We prove that such hypergraphs have at least
2τ(
H
)-1
vertices, and characterise those with
2τ(
H
)-1
vertices using a directed odd ear decomposition of an associated digraph. Using Seymour's characterisation of
χ
-critical
3
-chromatic square hypergraphs, we also show that a connected square hypergraph
H
with fewer than
2τ(
H
)
edges is
τ
-critical if and only if it is
χ
-critical
3
-chromatic. Finally, we deduce some new results on
χ
-vertex-critical graphs with connected complements.
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reference: Matěj Stehlík (2005), Connected
τ
-critical hypergraphs of minimal size, in 2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05), Stefan Felsner (ed.), Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Proceedings AE, pp. 157-160
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