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Independent sets in hypergraphs with a forbidden link

Combinatorics 2021-03-19 v2

Abstract

We give a probabilistic construction of a 33-uniform hypergraph on NN vertices with independence number O(logN/loglogN)O(\log N / \log \log N) in which there are at most two edges among any four vertices. This bound is tight and solves a longstanding open problem of Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal in Ramsey theory. We further extend this result to prove tight bounds on various other hypergraph Ramsey numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1909.05988,
  title  = {Independent sets in hypergraphs with a forbidden link},
  author = {Jacob Fox and Xiaoyu He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05988},
  year   = {2021}
}
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