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A Dirac-type theorem for Berge cycles in random hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2019-03-22 v1

Abstract

A Hamilton Berge cycle of a hypergraph on nn vertices is an alternating sequence (v1,e1,v2,,vn,en)(v_1, e_1, v_2, \ldots, v_n, e_n) of distinct vertices v1,,vnv_1, \ldots, v_n and distinct hyperedges e1,,ene_1, \ldots, e_n such that {v1,vn}en\{v_1,v_n\}\subseteq e_n and {vi,vi+1}ei\{v_i, v_{i+1}\} \subseteq e_i for every i[n1]i\in [n-1]. We prove the following Dirac-type theorem about Berge cycles in the binomial random rr-uniform hypergraph H(r)(n,p)H^{(r)}(n,p): for every integer r3r \geq 3, every real γ>0\gamma>0 and pln17rnnr1p \geq \frac{\ln^{17r} n}{n^{r-1}} asymptotically almost surely, every spanning subgraph HH(r)(n,p)H \subseteq H^{(r)}(n,p) with minimum vertex degree δ1(H)(12r1+γ)p(nr1)\delta_1(H) \geq \left(\frac{1}{2^{r-1}} + \gamma\right) p \binom{n}{r-1} contains a Hamilton Berge cycle. The minimum degree condition is asymptotically tight and the bound on pp is optimal up to some polylogarithmic factor.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09057,
  title  = {A Dirac-type theorem for Berge cycles in random hypergraphs},
  author = {Dennis Clemens and Julia Ehrenmüller and Yury Person},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09057},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

16 pages, an extended abstract of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the Discrete Mathematics Days 2016

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