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On small $n$-uniform hypergraphs with positive discrepancy

Combinatorics 2019-04-04 v2

Abstract

A two-coloring of the vertices VV of the hypergraph H=(V,E)H=(V, E) by red and blue has discrepancy dd if dd is the largest difference between the number of red and blue points in any edge. Let f(n)f(n) be the fewest number of edges in an nn-uniform hypergraph without a coloring with discrepancy 00. Erd\H{o}s and S\'os asked: is f(n)f(n) unbounded? N. Alon, D. J. Kleitman, C. Pomerance, M. Saks and P. Seymour proved upper and lower bounds in terms of the smallest non-divisor (\mboxsnd\mbox{snd}) of nn. We refine the upper bound as follows: f(n)clog\mboxsnd n.f (n) \leq c \log \mbox{snd}\ {n}.

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@article{arxiv.1706.05539,
  title  = {On small $n$-uniform hypergraphs with positive discrepancy},
  author = {Danila Cherkashin and Fedor Petrov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.05539},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages

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