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We study properties of random subcomplexes of partitions returned by (a suitable form of) the Strong Hypergraph Regularity Lemma, which we call regular slices. We argue that these subcomplexes capture many important structural properties of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Oliver Cooley , Richard Mycroft

A set cover of a hypergraph $H$ is a set of vertices intersecting every hyperedge. In the minimum sum set cover problem, vertices are selected one by one; each edge pays the position of the first vertex that hits it, and the objective is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhongyi Zhang , Yixin Cao

The first three authors [European J. Combin. 33 (2012), 62--71] established a relationship between the transversal number and the domination number of uniform hypergraphs. In this paper, we establish a relationship between the total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Csilla Bujtás , Michael A. Henning , Zsolt Tuza , Anders Yeo

A d-partite hypergraph is called *fractionally balanced* if there exists a non-negative, not identically zero, function on its edge set that has constant degrees in each vertex side. Using a topological version of Hall's theorem we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Ron Aharoni , Eli Berger , Joseph Briggs , Erel Segal-Halevi , Shira Zerbib

There is a famous problem in geometric graph theory to find the chromatic number of the unit distance graph on Euclidean space; it remains unsolved. A theorem of Erdos and De-Bruijn simplifies this problem to finding the maximum chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Sean Fiscus , Eric Myzelev , Hongyi Zhang

Extensions of Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem for general hypergraphs are well studied. In this work, we prove the extension of Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem for linear hypergraphs. In particular, we show that the number of hyperedges in an $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Ervin Győri , Nika Salia

For any natural number $d$, a graph $G$ is a (disjoint) $d$-interval graph if it is the intersection graph of (disjoint) $d$-intervals, the union of $d$ (disjoint) intervals on the real line. Two important subclasses of $d$-interval graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Virginia Ardévol Martínez , Romeo Rizzi , Abdallah Saffidine , Florian Sikora , Stéphane Vialette

The triangle covering number of a graph is the minimum number of vertices that hit all triangles. Given positive integers $s,t$ and an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor +t$ edges and triangle covering number $s$, we determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi

Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz noticed that an $r$-uniform intersecting hypergraph $H$ with maximal covering number, that is $\tau(H)=r$, must have at least $\frac{8}{3}r-3$ edges. There has been no improvement on this lower bound for 45 years. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-19 János Barát

An edge clique cover of a graph is a set of cliques that covers all edges of the graph. We generalize this concept to "$K_t$ clique cover", i.e. a set of cliques that covers all complete subgraphs on $t$ vertices of the graph, for every $t…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Hoang Dau , Olgica Milenkovic , Gregory J. Puleo

For a graph invariant $\pi$, the Contraction($\pi$) problem consists in, given a graph $G$ and two positive integers $k,d$, deciding whether one can contract at most $k$ edges of $G$ to obtain a graph in which $\pi$ has dropped by at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Paloma T. Lima , Vinicius F. dos Santos , Ignasi Sau , Uéverton S. Souza

The minimum number of bicliques needed to cover the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices is $\lceil \log_2 n \rceil$. The Graham-Pollak theorem states that at least $n-1$ bicliques are required to partition the edge set of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Anand Babu , Sundar Vishwanathan

Our main result improves bounds of Markstrom and Rucinski on the minimum d-degree which forces a perfect matching in a k-uniform hypergraph on n vertices. We also extend bounds of Bollobas, Daykin and Erdos by asymptotically determining the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Timothy Townsend

In this short note, we establish an edge-isoperimetric inequality for arbitrary product graphs. Our inequality is sharp for subsets of many different sizes in every product graph. In particular, it implies that the $2^d$-element sets with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Sahar Diskin , Wojciech Samotij

A famous conjecture of Erd\H{o}s asserts that for $k\ge 3$, the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph without $s+1$ pairwise disjoint edges is $\max\{\binom{n}{k}-\binom{n-s}{k},\binom{sk+k-1}{k}\}$. This problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Peter Frankl , Hongliang Lu , Jie Ma , Yuze Wu

This paper introduces a geometric representation of hypergraphs by representing hyperedges as simplices. Building on this framework, we employ homotopy groups to analyze the topological structure of hypergraphs embedded in high-dimensional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Qiming Fang , Sihong Shao

We present two results related to an edge-isoperimetric question for Cayley graphs on the integer lattice asked by Ben Barber and Joshua Erde [Isoperimetry of Integer Lattices, Discrete Analysis 7 (2018)]. For any (undirected) graph $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Cameron Strachan , Konrad Swanepoel

In 1965 Erd\H{o}s conjectured that the number of edges in k-uniform hypergraphs on n vertices in which the largest matching has s edges is maximized for hypergraphs of one of two special types. We settled this conjecture in the affirmative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Tomasz Luczak , Katarzyna Mieczkowska

Following a general program of studying limits of discrete structures, and motivated by the theory of limit objects of converge sequences of dense simple graphs, we study the limit of graph sequences such that every edge is labeled by an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-26 László Lovász , Balázs Szegedy

Fractional (hyper-)graph theory is concerned with the specific problems that arise when fractional analogues of otherwise integer-valued (hyper-)graph invariants are considered. The focus of this paper is on fractional edge covers of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger , Reinhard Pichler , Igor Razgon