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Random hypergraphs and property B

Combinatorics 2021-02-26 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In 1964 Erd\H{o}s proved that (1+\oh1))\eulln(2)4k22k(1+\oh{1})) \frac{\eul \ln(2)}{4} k^2 2^{k} edges are sufficient to build a kk-graph which is not two colorable. To this day, it is not known whether there exist such kk-graphs with smaller number of edges. Erd\H{o}s' bound is consequence of the fact that a hypergraph with k2/2k^2/2 vertices and M(k)=(1+\oh1)\eulln(2)4k22kM(k)=(1+\oh{1}) \frac{\eul \ln(2)}{4} k^2 2^{k} randomly chosen edges of size kk is asymptotically almost surely not two colorable. Our first main result implies that for any ε>0\varepsilon > 0, any kk-graph with (1ε)M(k)(1-\varepsilon) M(k) randomly and uniformly chosen edges is a.a.s. two colorable. The presented proof is an adaptation of the second moment method analogous to the developments of Achlioptas and Moore from 2002 who considered the problem with fixed size of edges and number of vertices tending to infinity. In the second part of the paper we consider the problem of algorithmic coloring of random kk-graphs. We show that quite simple, and somewhat greedy procedure, a.a.s. finds a proper two coloring for random kk-graphs on k2/2k^2/2 vertices, with at most \Ohklnk2k\Oh{k\ln k\cdot 2^k} edges. That is of the same asymptotic order as the analogue of the \emph{algorithmic barrier} defined by Achlioptas and Coja-Oghlan in 2008, for the case of fixed kk.

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@article{arxiv.2102.12968,
  title  = {Random hypergraphs and property B},
  author = {Lech Duraj and Jakub Kozik and Dmitry Shabanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12968},
  year   = {2021}
}