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On Even-Degree Subgraphs of Linear Hypergraphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2012

D. DELLAMONICA Jr. ,
P. HAXELL ,
T. ŁUCZAK ,
D. MUBAYI ,
B. NAGLE ,
Y. PERSON ,
V. RÖDL ,
M. SCHACHT  and
J. VERSTRAËTE
D. DELLAMONICA Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA (e-mail: ddellam@mathcs.emory.edu, rodl@mathcs.emory.edu)
P. HAXELL
Affiliation:
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada (e-mail: pehaxell@math.uwaterloo.ca)
T. ŁUCZAK
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA (e-mail: ddellam@mathcs.emory.edu, rodl@mathcs.emory.edu) Department of Discrete Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 87, 61-614 Poznań, Poland (e-mail: tomasz@amu.edu.pl)
D. MUBAYI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, USA (e-mail: mubayi@math.uic.edu)
B. NAGLE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA (e-mail: bnagle@math.usf.edu)
Y. PERSON
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: person@math.fu-berlin.de)
V. RÖDL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA (e-mail: ddellam@mathcs.emory.edu, rodl@mathcs.emory.edu)
M. SCHACHT
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstraße 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany (e-mail: schacht@math.uni-hamburg.de)
J. VERSTRAËTE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA 92093-0112, USA (e-mail: jacques@ucsd.edu)
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Abstract

A subgraph of a hypergraph H is even if all its degrees are positive even integers, and b-bounded if it has maximum degree at most b. Let fb(n) denote the maximum number of edges in a linearn-vertex 3-uniform hypergraph which does not contain a b-bounded even subgraph. In this paper, we show that if b ≥ 12, then for some absolute constant B, thus establishing fb(n) up to polylogarithmic factors. This leaves open the interesting case b = 2, which is the case of 2-regular subgraphs. We are able to show for some constants c, C > 0 that We conjecture that f2(n) = n1 + o(1) as n → ∞.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 21 , Issue 1-2: Honouring the Memory of Richard H. Schelp , March 2012 , pp. 113 - 127
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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