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Perfect matchings and loose Hamilton cycles in the semirandom hypergraph model

Combinatorics 2024-09-26 v2

Abstract

We study the 2-offer semirandom 3-uniform hypergraph model on nn vertices. At each step, we are presented with 2 uniformly random vertices. We choose any other vertex, thus creating a hyperedge of size 3. We show a strategy that constructs a perfect matching, and another that constructs a loose Hamilton cycle, both succeeding asymptotically almost surely within Θ(n)\Theta(n) steps. Both results extend to ss-uniform hypergraphs. The challenges with hypergraphs, and our methods, are qualitatively different from what has been seen for semirandom graphs. Much of our analysis is done on an auxiliary graph that is a uniform kk-out subgraph of a random bipartite graph, and this tool may be useful in other contexts.

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@article{arxiv.2401.00559,
  title  = {Perfect matchings and loose Hamilton cycles in the semirandom hypergraph model},
  author = {Michael Molloy and Pawel Pralat and Gregory B. Sorkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00559},
  year   = {2024}
}

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This version makes the title more explicit, revises the introduction and background, corrects some minor errors, and adds a few clarifications