Transversals in Uniform Hypergraphs with Property (p,2)

Dedicated to the memory of Paul Erdős

Let f(r,p,t) (p > t >= 1, r >= 2) be the maximum of the cardinality of a minimum transversal over all r-uniform hypergraphs possessing the property that every subhypergraph of with p edges has a transversal of size t. The values of f(r,p,2) for p = 3, 4, 5, 6 were found in [1] and bounds on f(r,7,2) are given in [3]. Here we prove that for large p and huge r.