On the 2-colorability of random hypergraphs
Abstract
A 2-coloring of a hypergraph is a mapping from its vertices to a set of two colors such that no edge is monochromatic. Let be a random -uniform hypergraph on vertices formed by picking edges uniformly, independently and with replacement. It is easy to show that if , then with high probability is not 2-colorable. We complement this observation by proving that if then with high probability is 2-colorable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.04809,
title = {On the 2-colorability of random hypergraphs},
author = {Dimitris Achlioptas and Cristopher Moore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04809},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
This is an 18-year-old paper: it appeared in RANDOM 2002, but we neglected to post it on the arxiv and it is a bit hard to find outside paywalls. An enormous amount of progress has been made on this and related problems since then, but it might still be of interest as an example of using the second moment method to prove lower bounds on phase transitions in random combinatorial problems