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In this paper, we study a primal and dual relationship about triangles: For any graph $G$, let $ u(G)$ be the maximum number of edge-disjoint triangles in $G$, and $tau(G)$ be the minimum subset $F$ of edges such that $G setminus F$ is triangle-free. It is easy to see that $ u(G) leq tau(G) leq 3 u(G)$, and in fact, this rather obvious inequality holds for a much more general primal-dual relation between $k$-hyper matching and covering in hypergraphs. Tuza conjectured in $1981$ that $tau(G) leq 2 u(G)$, and this question has received attention from various groups of researchers in discrete mathematics, settling various special cases such as planar graphs and generalized to bounded maximum average degree graphs, some cases of minor-free graphs, and very dense graphs. Despite these efforts, the conjecture in general graphs has remained wide open for almost four decades. In this paper, we provide a proof of a non-trivial consequence of the conjecture; that is, for every $k geq 2$, there exist a (multi)-set $F subseteq E(G): |F| leq 2k u(G)$ such that each triangle in $G$ overlaps at least $k$ elements in $F$. Our result can be seen as a strengthened statement of Krivelevichs result on the fractional version of Tuzas conjecture (and we give some examples illustrating this.) The main technical ingredient of our result is a charging argument, that locally identifies edges in $F$ based on a local view of the packing solution. This idea might be useful in further studying the primal-dual relations in general and the Tuzas conjecture in particular.
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