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Hypergraphs with infinitely many extremal constructions

Combinatorics 2023-12-04 v3

Abstract

We give the first exact and stability results for a hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problem with infinitely many extremal constructions that are far from each other in edit-distance. This includes an example of triple systems with Tur\'{a}n density 2/92/9, thus answering some questions posed by the third and fourth authors and Reiher about the feasible region of hypergraphs. Our results also provide extremal constructions whose shadow density is a transcendental number. Our novel approach is to construct certain multilinear polynomials that attain their maximum (in the standard simplex) on a line segment and then to use these polynomials to define an operation on hypergraphs that gives extremal constructions.

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@article{arxiv.2206.03948,
  title  = {Hypergraphs with infinitely many extremal constructions},
  author = {Jianfeng Hou and Heng Li and Xizhi Liu and Dhruv Mubayi and Yixiao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.03948},
  year   = {2023}
}

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journal version, Discrete Analysis 2023:18, 34 pp

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