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Two stability theorems for $\mathcal{K}_{\ell + 1}^{r}$-saturated hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2022-11-08 v1

Abstract

An F\mathcal{F}-saturated rr-graph is a maximal rr-graph not containing any member of F\mathcal{F} as a subgraph. Let K+1r\mathcal{K}_{\ell + 1}^{r} be the collection of all rr-graphs FF with at most (+12)\binom{\ell+1}{2} edges such that for some (+1)\left(\ell+1\right)-set SS every pair {u,v}S\{u, v\} \subset S is covered by an edge in FF. Our first result shows that for each r2\ell \geq r \geq 2 every K+1r\mathcal{K}_{\ell+1}^{r}-saturated rr-graph on nn vertices with tr(n,)o(nr1+1/)t_{r}(n, \ell) - o(n^{r-1+1/\ell}) edges contains a complete \ell-partite subgraph on (1o(1))n(1-o(1))n vertices, which extends a stability theorem for K+1K_{\ell+1}-saturated graphs given by Popielarz, Sahasrabudhe and Snyder. We also show that the bound is best possible. Our second result is motivated by a celebrated theorem of Andr\'{a}sfai, Erd\H{o}s and S\'{o}s which states that for 2\ell \geq 2 every K+1K_{\ell+1}-free graph GG on nn vertices with minimum degree δ(G)>3431n\delta(G) > \frac{3\ell-4}{3\ell-1}n is \ell-partite. We give a hypergraph version of it. The \emph{minimum positive co-degree} of an rr-graph H\mathcal{H}, denoted by δr1+(H)\delta_{r-1}^{+}(\mathcal{H}), is the maximum kk such that if SS is an (r1)(r-1)-set contained in a edge of H\mathcal{H}, then SS is contained in at least kk distinct edges of H\mathcal{H}. Let 3\ell\ge 3 be an integer and H\mathcal{H} be a K+13\mathcal{K}_{\ell+1}^3-saturated 33-graph on nn vertices. We prove that if either 4\ell \ge 4 and δ2+(H)>3731n\delta_{2}^{+}(\mathcal{H}) > \frac{3\ell-7}{3\ell-1}n; or =3\ell = 3 and δ2+(H)>2n/7\delta_{2}^{+}(\mathcal{H}) > 2n/7, then H\mathcal{H} is \ell-partite; and the bound is best possible. This is the first stability result on minimum positive co-degree for hypergraphs.

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@article{arxiv.2211.02838,
  title  = {Two stability theorems for $\mathcal{K}_{\ell + 1}^{r}$-saturated hypergraphs},
  author = {Jianfeng Hou and Heng Li and Caihong Yang and Qinghou Zeng and Yixiao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.02838},
  year   = {2022}
}
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