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We show that for all $k\geq 4$, $\varepsilon >0$, and $n$ sufficiently large, every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices in which each set of $k-3$ vertices is contained in at least $(5/8 + \varepsilon) \binom{n}{3}$ edges contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Richard Lang , Mathias Schacht , Jan Volec

Let $H=(V,E)$ be a hypergraph, where $V$ is a set of vertices and $E$ is a set of non-empty subsets of $V$ called edges. If all edges of $H$ have the same cardinality $r$, then $H$ is a $r$-uniform hypergraph; if $E$ consists of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Yingzhi Tian , Liqiong Xu , Hong-Jian Lai , Jixiang Meng

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 Berge cycle of length $k$ in a hypergraph $\mathcal H$ is a sequence of distinct vertices and hyperedges $v_1,h_1,v_2,h_2,\dots,v_{k},h_k$ such that $v_{i},v_{i+1}\in h_i$ for all $i\in[k]$, indices taken modulo $k$. F\"uredi, Kostochka…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Nika Salia

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

Let $n$ and $r$ be integers with $n-2\ge r\ge 3$. We prove that any $r$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ on $n$ vertices with spectral radius $\lambda(\mathcal{H}) > \binom{n-2}{r-1}$ must contain a Hamiltonian Berge cycle unless…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 George Brooks , William Linz , Ruth Luo

We give a new construction showing that for every $r\ge 3$, there exists an $r$-uniform linear hypergraph on $n$ vertices with $\Theta_r(n^2)$ edges and no copy of the $r\times r$ grid. This complements the works of F\"uredi--Ruszink\'o,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Cosmin Pohoata

For any uniformity $r$ and residue $k$ modulo $r$, we give an exact characterization of the $r$-uniform hypergraphs that homomorphically avoid tight cycles of length $k$ modulo $r$, in terms of colorings of $(r-1)$-tuples of vertices. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Maya Sankar

We show that $3$-graphs on $n$ vertices whose codegree is at least $(2/3 + o(1))n$ can be decomposed into tight cycles and admit Euler tours, subject to the trivial necessary divisibility conditions. We also provide a construction showing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Simón Piga , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

We show that $k$-uniform hypergraphs on $n$ vertices whose codegree is at least $(2/3 + o(1))n$ can be decomposed into tight cycles, subject to the trivial divisibility conditions. As a corollary, we show those graphs contain tight Euler…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Allan Lo , Simón Piga , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

The Erd\H{o}s--Hajnal Theorem asserts that non-universal graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain an induced copy of some fixed graph $H$, have homogeneous sets of size significantly larger than one can generally expect to find in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Michal Amir , Asaf Shapira , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

A cycle of length $t$ in a hypergraph is an alternating sequence $v_1,e_1,v_2\dots,v_t,e_t$ of distinct vertices $v_i$ and distinct edges $e_i$ so that $\{v_i,v_{i+1}\}\subseteq e_i$ (with $v_{t+1}:=v_1$). Let $\lambda K_n^h$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Amin Bahmanian , Sadegheh Haghshenas

We give an algorithmic proof for the existence of tight Hamilton cycles in a random r-uniform hypergraph with edge probability p=n^{-1+eps} for every eps>0. This partly answers a question of Dudek and Frieze [Random Structures Algorithms],…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Yury Person

Fix $r \ge 2$ and a collection of $r$-uniform hypergraphs $\cH$. What is the minimum number of edges in an $\cH$-free $r$-uniform hypergraph with chromatic number greater than $k$. We investigate this question for various $\cH$. Our results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Tom Bohman , Alan Frieze , Dhruv Mubayi

We study sufficient conditions for the existence of Hamilton cycles in uniformly dense $3$-uniform hypergraphs. Problems of this type were first considered by Lenz, Mubayi, and Mycroft for loose Hamilton cycles and Aigner-Horev and Levy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Pedro Araújo , Simón Piga , Mathias Schacht

For $n\geq 3$, let $r=r(n)\geq 3$ be an integer. A hypergraph is $r$-uniform if each edge is a set of $r$ vertices, and is said to be linear if two edges intersect in at most one vertex. In this paper, the number of linear $r$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Brendan D. McKay , Fang Tian

Given two $r$-uniform hypergraphs $G$ and $H$ the Tur\'an number $\rm{ex}(G, H)$ is the maximum number of edges in an $H$-free subgraph of $G$. We study the typical value of $\rm{ex}(G, H)$ when $G=G_{n,p}^{(r)}$, the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Dhruv Mubayi , Liana Yepremyan

The $3$-uniform tight $\ell$-cycle $C_\ell^{3}$ is the $3$-graph on $\{1,\dots,\ell\}$ consisting of all $\ell$ consecutive triples in the cyclic order. Let $\mathcal{C}$ be either the pair $\{C_{4}^{3}, C_{5}^{3}\}$ or the single tight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Levente Bodnár , Jared León , Xizhi Liu , Oleg Pikhurko

An $r$-uniform hypergraph is called $t$-union-free if any two distinct subsets of at most $t$ edges have distinct union. The study of union-free hypergraphs has multiple origins and a long history, dating back to the works of Kautz and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Miao Liu , Chong Shangguan , Chenyang Zhang

An $r$-graph is an $r$-uniform hypergraph tree (or $r$-tree) if its edges can be ordered as $E_1,\ldots, E_m$ such that $\forall i>1 \, \exists \alpha(i)<i$ such that $E_i\cap (\bigcup_{j=1}^{i-1} E_j)\subseteq E_{\alpha(i)}$. The Tur\'an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Zoltán Füredi , Tao Jiang