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For a graph $F$, we say a hypergraph $H$ is Berge-$F$ if it can be obtained from $F$ be replacing each edge of $F$ with a hyperedge containing it. We say a hypergraph is Berge-$F$-saturated if it does not contain a Berge-$F$, but adding any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Sean English , Dániel Gerbner , Abhishek Methuku , Michael Tait

Numerous problems in extremal hypergraph theory ask to determine the maximal size of a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices that does not contain an `enlarged' copy $H^+$ of a fixed hypergraph $H$. These include well-known problems such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Nathan Keller , Noam Lifshitz

Let $n, r, k$ be positive integers such that $3\leq k < n$ and $2\leq r \leq k-1$. Let $m(n, r, k)$ denote the maximum number of edges an $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices can have under the condition that any collection of $i$ edges,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Niranjan Balachandran , Srimanta Bhattacharya

We study a variant of the Erd\H{o}s Matching Problem in random hypergraphs. Let $\mathcal{K}_p(n,k)$ denote the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices where each possible edge is included with probability $p$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Peter Frankl , Jiaxi Nie , Jian Wang

Given a graph $G$, we say a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ on the same vertex set contains a Berge-$G$ if there exists an injection $\phi:E(G)\to E(H)$ such that $e\subseteq\phi(e)$ for each edge $e\in E(G)$. A hypergraph $H$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Bethany Austhof , Sean English

Let $\mathcal{H}=(V,\mathcal{E})$ be an $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices and fix a positive integer $k$ such that $1\le k\le r$. A $k$-\emph{matching} of $\mathcal{H}$ is a collection of edges $\mathcal{M}\subset \mathcal{E}$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Christos Pelekis , Israel Rocha

Let $f^{(r)}(n;s,k)$ be the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraph containing no $k$ edges on at most $s$ vertices. Brown, Erd\H{o}s and S\'os conjectured in 1973 that the limit $\lim_{n\rightarrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Oleg Pikhurko , Shumin Sun

The following very natural problem was raised by Chung and Erd\H{o}s in the early 80's and has since been repeated a number of times. What is the minimum of the Tur\'an number $\text{ex}(n,\mathcal{H})$ among all $r$-graphs $\mathcal{H}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-01 M. Bucić , N. Draganić , B. Sudakov , T. Tran

Zarankiewicz's problem asks for the largest possible number of edges in a graph that does not contain a $K_{u,u}$ subgraph for a fixed positive integer $u$. Recently, Fox, Pach, Sheffer, Sulk and Zahl considered this problem for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Thao Do

The saturation number $\operatorname{sat}(n, H)$ of a graph $H$ and positive integer $n$ is the minimum size of a graph of order $n$ which does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to $H$ but to which the addition of any edge creates such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Calum Buchanan , Puck Rombach

A central problem in extremal graph theory is to estimate, for a given graph $H$, the number of $H$-free graphs on a given set of $n$ vertices. In the case when $H$ is not bipartite, fairly precise estimates on this number are known. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Asaf Ferber , Gweneth Anne McKinley , Wojciech Samotij

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem shows that for $n \ge 2k$ the largest intersecting $k$-uniform set family on $[n]$ has size $\binom{n-1}{k-1}$. It is natural to ask how far from intersecting larger set families must be. Katona,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Shagnik Das , Benny Sudakov

Determine the size of $r$-graphs with given graph parameters is an interesting problem. Chv\'atal and Hanson (JCTB, 1976) gave a tight upper bound of the size of 2-graphs with restricted maximum degree and matching number; Khare (DM, 2014)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Xinmin Hou , Lei Yu , Jun Gao , Boyuan Liu

Let $F$ and $H$ be $k$-uniform hypergraphs. We say $H$ is $F$-saturated if $H$ does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to $F$, but $H+e$ does for any hyperedge $e\not\in E(H)$. The saturation number of $F$, denoted $\mathrm{sat}_k(n,F)$, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Sean English , Alexandr Kostochka , Dara Zirlin

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

The linear saturation number $sat^{lin}_k(n,\mathcal{F})$ (linear extremal number $ex^{lin}_k(n,\mathcal{F})$) of $\mathcal{F}$ is the minimum (maximum) number of hyperedges of an $n$-vertex linear $k$-uniform hypergraph containing no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Changxin Wang , Junxue Zhang

Graph-bootstrap percolation, also known as weak saturation, was introduced by Bollob\'as in 1968. In this process, we start with initial "infected" set of edges $E_0$, and we infect new edges according to a predetermined rule. Given a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-11 József Balogh , Gal Kronenberg , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Tibor Szabó

For an edge-ordered graph $G$, we say that an $n$-vertex edge-ordered graph $H$ is $G$-saturated if it is $G$-free and adding any new edge with any new label to $H$ introduces a copy of $G$. The saturation function describes the minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Vladimir Bošković , Balázs Keszegh

Motivated by the study of a variant of sunflowers, Alon and Holzman recently introduced focal-free hypergraphs. In this paper, we show that there is an interesting connection between the maximum size of focal-free hypergraphs and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xinqi Huang , Chong Shangguan , Xiande Zhang , Yuhao Zhao

A graph $G$ is $H$-saturated if $H$ is not a subgraph of $G$ but $H$ is a subgraph of $G + e$ for any edge $e$ in $\overline{G}$. The saturation number $sat(n,H)$ for a graph $H$ is the minimal number of edges in any $H$-saturated graph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Ruo-Xuan Li , Rong-Xia Hao , Zhen He , Wen-Han Zhu