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Phase transition of degenerate Tur\'{a}n problems in $p$-norms

Combinatorics 2025-03-04 v3

Abstract

For a positive real number pp, the pp-norm Gp\left\lVert G \right\rVert_p of a graph GG is the sum of the pp-th powers of all vertex degrees. We study the maximum pp-norm exp(n,F)\mathrm{ex}_{p}(n,F) of FF-free graphs on nn vertices. F\"{u}redi and K\"{u}ndgen \cite{FK06} show that for every bipartite graph FF, there exists a threshold pFp_F such that for p<pFp< p_{F}, the order of exp(n,F)\mathrm{ex}_{p}(n,F) is governed by pseudorandom constructions, while for p>pFp > p_{F}, it is governed by star-like constructions, assuming a mild assumption on the growth rate of ex(n,F)\mathrm{ex}(n,F). The main contribution of our paper is extending this result to hypergraph. Moreover, in the case of graph, our proof differs from that in \cite{FK06}, offering the advantage of producing the correct constant factor when p>pFp > p_{F}. When p=pFp = p_F, F\"{u}redi and K\"{u}ndgen proved a general upper bound on exp(n,F)\mathrm{ex}_{p}(n,F), tight up to a logn\log n factor, and conjectured that this factor is unnecessary. We confirm this conjecture for several well-studied bipartite graphs, including one-side degree-bounded graphs and families of short even cycles.

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@article{arxiv.2411.15579,
  title  = {Phase transition of degenerate Tur\'{a}n problems in $p$-norms},
  author = {Jun Gao and Xizhi Liu and Jie Ma and Oleg Pikhurko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15579},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

28 pages, we added a remark at the end of the Introduction