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The density Tur\'an problem for hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2021-11-19 v2

Abstract

Given a kk-graph HH a complete blow-up of HH is a kk-graph H^\hat{H} formed by replacing each vV(H)v\in V(H) by a non-empty vertex class AvA_v and then inserting all edges between any kk vertex classes corresponding to an edge of HH. Given a subgraph GH^G\subseteq \hat{H} and an edge eE(H)e\in E(H) we define the density de(G)d_e(G) to be the proportion of edges present in GG between the classes corresponding to ee. The density Tur\'an problem for HH asks: determine the minimal value dcrit(H)d_{crit}(H) such that any subgraph GH^G\subseteq \hat{H} satisfying de(G)>dcrit(H)d_e(G)> d_{crit}(H) for every eE(H)e\in E(H) contains a copy of HH as a transversal, i.e. a copy of HH meeting each vertex class of H^\hat{H} exactly once. We give upper bounds for this hypergraph density Tur\'an problem that generalise the known bounds for the case of graphs due to Csikv\'ari and Nagy, [Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 21(4):531-553, 2012] although our methods are different, employing an entropy compression argument.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2108.13709,
  title  = {The density Tur\'an problem for hypergraphs},
  author = {Adam Sanitt and John Talbot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13709},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures, final version as accepted for publication in Journal of Combinatorics

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