Bollobás–Erdős–Tuza conjecture on transversals of maximum independent sets

Let 0<c<10<c<1 be a constant. For a graph GG, let α(G)\alpha(G) be the size of a largest independent set, and let h(G)h(G) be the size of a smallest set meeting every maximum independent set. Bollobás–Erdős–Tuza maximum conjecture. If GG is a graph on nn vertices with

α(G)cn,\alpha(G)\geq cn,

then

h(G)=o(n).h(G)=o(n).

The source presents this as a closely related conjecture that has received recent attention; no resolution is given.

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Primary source

Joshua Cooper and Isaiah Hollars, “Hitting all maximal independent sets in c-hollow graphs”, arXiv:2607.15486 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2405.18264, arXiv:2302.04986.

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