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Embedding tetrahedra into quasirandom hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2016-09-20 v2

Abstract

We investigate extremal problems for quasirandom hypergraphs. We say that a 33-uniform hypergraph H=(V,E)H=(V,E) is (d,η)(d,\eta)-quasirandom if for any subset XVX\subseteq V and every set of pairs PV×VP\subseteq V\times V the number of pairs (x,(y,z))X×P(x,(y,z))\in X\times P with {x,y,z}\{x,y,z\} being a hyperedge of HH is in the interval dXP±ηV3d|X||P|\pm\eta|V|^3. We show that for any ε>0\varepsilon>0 there exists η>0\eta>0 such that every sufficiently large (1/2+ε,η)(1/2+\varepsilon,\eta)-quasirandom hypergraph contains a tetrahedron, i.e., four vertices spanning all four hyperedges. A known random construction shows that the density 1/21/2 is best possible. This result is closely related to a question of Erd\H{o}s, whether every weakly quasirandom 33-uniform hypergraph HH with density bigger than 1/21/2, i.e., every large subset of vertices induces a hypergraph with density bigger than 1/21/2, contains a tetrahedron.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.02289,
  title  = {Embedding tetrahedra into quasirandom hypergraphs},
  author = {Christian Reiher and Vojtěch Rödl and Mathias Schacht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02289},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

18 pages, second version addresses changes arising from the referee reports

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