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Short Proof of Erd\H os Conjecture for Triple Systems

Combinatorics 2016-09-05 v1

Abstract

In 1965 Erd\H os conjectured that for all k2k\ge2, s1s\ge1 and nk(s+1)n\ge k(s+1), an nn-vertex kk-uniform hypergraph \F\F with ν(\F)=s\nu(\F)=s cannot have more than \newline max{(sk+k1k),  (nk)(nsk)}\max\{\binom{sk+k-1}k,\;\binom nk-\binom{n-s}k\} edges. It took almost fifty years to prove it for triple systems. In 2012 we proved the conjecture for all ss and all n4(s+1)n\ge4(s+1). Then {\L}uczak and Mieczkowska (2013) proved the conjecture for sufficiently large ss and all nn. Soon after, Frankl proved it for all ss. Here we present a simpler version of that proof which yields Erd\H os's conjecture for s33s\ge33. Our motivation is to lay down foundations for a possible proof in the much harder case k=4k=4, at least for large ss.

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@article{arxiv.1609.00530,
  title  = {Short Proof of Erd\H os Conjecture for Triple Systems},
  author = {Peter Frankl and Vojtech Rödl and Andrzej Ruciński},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.00530},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure