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Perfect matchings in random sparsifications of Dirac hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2024-04-17 v2

Abstract

For all integers nk>d1n \geq k > d \geq 1, let md(k,n)m_{d}(k,n) be the minimum integer D0D \geq 0 such that every kk-uniform nn-vertex hypergraph H\mathcal H with minimum dd-degree δd(H)\delta_{d}(\mathcal H) at least DD has an optimal matching. For every fixed integer k3k \geq 3, we show that for nkNn \in k \mathbb{N} and p=Ω(nk+1logn)p = \Omega(n^{-k+1} \log n), if H\mathcal H is an nn-vertex kk-uniform hypergraph with δk1(H)mk1(k,n)\delta_{k-1}(\mathcal H) \geq m_{k-1}(k,n), then a.a.s.\ its pp-random subhypergraph Hp\mathcal H_p contains a perfect matching. Moreover, for every fixed integer d<kd < k and γ>0\gamma > 0, we show that the same conclusion holds if H\mathcal H is an nn-vertex kk-uniform hypergraph with δd(H)md(k,n)+γ(ndkd)\delta_d(\mathcal H) \geq m_{d}(k,n) + \gamma\binom{n - d}{k - d}. Both of these results strengthen Johansson, Kahn, and Vu's seminal solution to Shamir's problem and can be viewed as ``robust'' versions of hypergraph Dirac-type results. In addition, we also show that in both cases above, H\mathcal H has at least exp((11/k)nlognΘ(n))\exp((1-1/k)n \log n - \Theta (n)) many perfect matchings, which is best possible up to an exp(Θ(n))\exp(\Theta(n)) factor.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2211.01325,
  title  = {Perfect matchings in random sparsifications of Dirac hypergraphs},
  author = {Dong Yeap Kang and Tom Kelly and Daniela Kühn and Deryk Osthus and Vincent Pfenninger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01325},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear in Combinatorica (26 pages + 2 page appendix); Theorem 1.5 was proved in independent work of Pham, Sah, Sawhney, and Simkin (arxiv:2210.03064)

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