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Four-vertex obstruction to polychromatic three-colouring

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Take every three-element subset of a four-element vertex set as a hypergraph edge. Any three-colouring repeats a colour on two vertices. A triple containing that pair cannot contain all three colours. Thus this uniform hypergraph has no polychromatic three-colouring, although each edge meets only three other edges.

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