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Stability and Turán Numbers of a Class of Hypergraphs via Lagrangians

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2017

AXEL BRANDT ,
DAVID IRWIN  and
TAO JIANG
AXEL BRANDT
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28035, USA (e-mail: axbrandt@davidson.edu)
DAVID IRWIN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA (e-mail: irwin.315@osu.edu)
TAO JIANG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA (e-mail: jiangt@miamioh.edu)
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Abstract

Given a family of r-uniform hypergraphs ${\cal F}$ (or r-graphs for brevity), the Turán number ex(n, ${\cal F})$ of ${\cal F}$ is the maximum number of edges in an r-graph on n vertices that does not contain any member of ${\cal F}$ . A pair {u,v} is covered in a hypergraph G if some edge of G contains {u, v}. Given an r-graph F and a positive integer p ⩾ n(F), where n(F) denotes the number of vertices in F, let HFp denote the r-graph obtained as follows. Label the vertices of F as v 1,. . .,vn (F). Add new vertices vn(F)+1 ,. . .,vp . For each pair of vertices vi, vj not covered in F, add a set Bi,j of r − 2 new vertices and the edge {vi, vj } ∪ Bi,j , where the Bi,j are pairwise disjoint over all such pairs {i, j}. We call HFp the expanded p-clique with an embedded F. For a relatively large family of F, we show that for all sufficiently large n, ex(n,HFp ) = |Tr (n, p − 1)|, where Tr (n, p − 1) is the balanced complete (p − 1)-partite r-graph on n vertices. We also establish structural stability of near-extremal graphs. Our results generalize or strengthen several earlier results and provide a class of hypergraphs for which the Turán number is exactly determined (for large n).

MSC classification

Primary: 05C65: Hypergraphs
Secondary: 05C35: Extremal problems

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , May 2017 , pp. 367 - 405
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