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Mantel's Theorem for Random Hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2015-05-29 v2

Abstract

A classical result in extremal graph theory is Mantel's Theorem, which states that every maximum triangle-free subgraph of KnK_n is bipartite. A sparse version of Mantel's Theorem is that, for sufficiently large pp, every maximum triangle-free subgraph of G(n,p)G(n,p) is w.h.p. bipartite. Recently, 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 best possible. We study an extremal problem of this type in random hypergraphs. Denote by F5F_5, which sometimes called as the generalized triangle, the 3-uniform hypergraph with vertex set {a,b,c,d,e} and edge set {abc, ade, bde}. One of the first extremal results in extremal hypergraph theory is by Frankl and F\"{u}redi, who proved that the maximum 3-uniform hypergraph on n vertices containing no copy of F5F_5 is tripartite for n>3000. A natural question is for what p is every maximum F5F_5-free subhypergraph of G3(n,p)G^3(n,p) w.h.p. tripartite. We show this holds for p>Klogn/np>K\log n/n for some constant K and does not hold for p=0.1logn/np=0.1\sqrt{\log n}/n.

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@article{arxiv.1310.1501,
  title  = {Mantel's Theorem for Random Hypergraphs},
  author = {József Balogh and Jane Butterfield and Ping Hu and John Lenz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1501},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure

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