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Ryser's Conjecture states that for any $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph, the vertex cover number is at most $r{-}1$ times the matching number. This conjecture is only known to be true for $r\leq 3$ in general and for $r\leq 5$ if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Ahmad Abu-Khazneh , János Barát , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Tibor Szabó

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture says that any graph without a fixed induced subgraph $H$ contains a very large homogeneous set. A direct analog of this conjecture is not true for hypergraphs. In this paper we present two natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Fabian Arnold , Lior Gishboliner , Benny Sudakov

A classical result in extremal graph theory is Mantel's Theorem, which states that every maximum triangle-free subgraph of $K_n$ is bipartite. A sparse version of Mantel's Theorem is that, for sufficiently large $p$, every maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-29 József Balogh , Jane Butterfield , Ping Hu , John Lenz

An $r$-cut of a $k$-uniform hypergraph is a partition of its vertex set into $r$ parts, and the size of the cut is the number of edges which have at least one vertex in each part. The study of the possible size of the largest $r$-cut in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Oliver Janzer , Julien Portier

Let $F$ be a graph. We say that a hypergraph $H$ is a {\it Berge}-$F$ if there is a bijection $f : E(F) \rightarrow E(H )$ such that $e \subseteq f(e)$ for every $e \in E(F)$. Note that Berge-$F$ actually denotes a class of hypergraphs. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Cory Palmer , Michael Tait , Craig Timmons , Adam Zsolt Wagner

We give an upper bound for the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex 2-connected $r$-uniform hypergraph with no Berge cycle of length $k$ or greater, where $n\geq k \geq 4r\geq 12$. For $n$ large with respect to $r$ and $k$, this bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Zoltan Furedi , Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo

A well-known conjecture, often attributed to Ryser, states that the cover number of an $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph is at most $r - 1$ times larger than its matching number. Despite considerable effort, particularly in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Anurag Bishnoi , Shagnik Das , Patrick Morris , Tibor Szabó

The maximum size of an $r$-uniform hypergraph without a Berge cycle of length at least $k$ has been determined for all $k \ge r+3$ by F\"uredi, Kostochka and Luo and for $k<r$ (and $k=r$, asymptotically) by Kostochka and Luo. In this paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-24 Beka Ergemlidze , Ervin Győri , Abhishek Methuku , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Oscar Zamora

Given a set $R$, a hypergraph is $R$-uniform if the size of every hyperedge belongs to $R$. A hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ is called \textit{covering} if every vertex pair is contained in some hyperedge in $\mathcal{H}$. In this note, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Linyuan Lu , Zhiyu Wang

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

Let $\mathrm{ex}(G_{n,p}^r,F)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free subgraph of the random $r$-uniform hypergraph $G_{n,p}^r$, and let $s(F):=\sup\{s: \exists H,\ t_F(H)=t_{K_r^r}(H)^{s+e(F)}>0\}$. Following recent work of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Jiaxi Nie , Sam Spiro

In this paper we consider a natural extremal graph theoretic problem of topological sort, concerning the minimization of the (topological) connectedness of the independence complex of graphs in terms of its dimension. We observe that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Penny Haxell , Lothar Narins , Tibor Szabó

Brouwer conjectured that the sum of the first $k$ largest Laplacian eigenvalues of an $n$-vertex graph is less than or equal to the number of its edges plus $\binom{k+1}{2}$ for each $k\in \{1,2,\cdots,n\}$, which has come to be known as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Xiaodan Chen , Junwei Zi

More than forty years ago, Erd\H{o}s conjectured that for any T <= N/K, every K-uniform hypergraph on N vertices without T disjoint edges has at most max{\binom{KT-1}{K}, \binom{N}{K} - \binom{N-T+1}{K}} edges. Although this appears to be a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Hao Huang , Po-Shen Loh , Benny Sudakov

Motivated by the well-known conjecture of Ryser which relates maximum matchings to minimum vertex covers in $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraphs, Lov\'asz formulated a stronger conjecture. It states that one can always reduce the matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Aida Abiad , Frederik Garbe , Xavier Povill , Christoph Spiegel

In this paper, we prove the conjectures of Gharakhloo and Welker (2023) that the positive matching decomposition number (pmd) of a $3$-uniform hypergraph is bounded from above by a polynomial of degree $2$ in terms of the number of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Marie Amalore Nambi , Neeraj Kumar

In this paper, we make progress on a question related to one of Galvin that has attracted substantial attention recently. The question is that of determining among all graphs $G$ with $n$ vertices and $\Delta(G)\leq r$, which has the most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-07 Jonathan Cutler , A. J. Radcliffe

The Harary reconstruction conjecture states that any graph with more than four edges can be uniquely reconstructed from its set of maximal edge-deleted subgraphs. In 1977, M\"uller verified the conjecture for graphs with $n$ vertices and $n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Anthony E. Pizzimenti , Umarkhon Rakhimov

The well-known Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for any graph $F$, there exists $\epsilon>0$ such that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ that contains no induced copy of $F$ has a homogeneous set of size at least $n^{\epsilon}$. We consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Maria Axenovich , Dhruv Mubayi , Lea Weber

In this note we asymptotically determine the maximum number of hyperedges possible in an $r$-uniform, connected $n$-vertex hypergraph without a Berge path of length $k$, as $n$ and $k$ tend to infinity. We show that, unlike in the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Ervin Győri , Abhishek Methuku , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Máté Vizer