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An extension of Mantel's theorem to random 4-uniform hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2014-11-14 v1

Abstract

A sparse version of Mantel's Theorem is that, for sufficiently large pp, with high probability (w.h.p.), every maximum triangle-free subgraph of G(n,p)G(n,p) is bipartite. DeMarco and Kahn proved this for p>Klogn/np>K \sqrt{\log n/n} for some constant KK, and apart from the value of the constant, this bound is the best possible. Denote by T3T_3 the 3-uniform hypergraph with vertex set {a,b,c,d,e}\{a,b,c,d,e\} and edge set {abc,ade,bde}\{abc,ade,bde\}. Frankl and F\"uredi showed that the maximum 3-uniform hypergraph on nn vertices containing no copy of T3T_3 is tripartite for n>3000n> 3000. For some integer kk, let Gk(n,p)G^k(n,p) be the random kk-uniform hypergraph. Balogh et al. proved that for p>Klogn/np>K \log n/n for some constant KK, every maximum T3T_3-free subhypergraph of G3(n,p)G^3(n,p) w.h.p. is tripartite and it does not hold when p=0.1logn/np=0.1 \sqrt{\log n}/n. Denote by T4T_4 the 4-uniform hypergraph with vertex set {1,2,3,4,5,6,7}\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7\} and edge set {1234,1235,4567}\{1234,1235,4567\}. Pikhurko proved that there is an n0n_0 such that for all nn0n\ge n_0, the maximum 4-uniform hypergraph on nn vertices containing no copy of T4T_4 is 4-partite. In this paper, we extend this type of extremal problem in random 4-uniform hypergraphs. We show that for some constant KK and p>Klogn/np>K \log n/n, w.h.p. every maximum T4T_4-free subhypergraph of G4(n,p)G^4(n,p) is 4-partite.

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@article{arxiv.1411.3504,
  title  = {An extension of Mantel's theorem to random 4-uniform hypergraphs},
  author = {Ran Gu and Xueliang Li and Zhongmei Qin and Yongtang Shi and Kang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3504},
  year   = {2014}
}

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18 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1310.1501 by other authors