Turán density of long tight cycle minus one hyperedge

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Main Authors: Balogh, József, Luo, Haoran
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Published: 2023
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author Balogh, József
Luo, Haoran
author_facet Balogh, József
Luo, Haoran
contents Denote by $\mathcal{C}^-_{\ell}$ the $3$-uniform hypergraph obtained by removing one hyperedge from the tight cycle on $\ell$ vertices. It is conjectured that the Turán density of $\mathcal{C}^-_{5}$ is $1/4$. In this paper, we make progress toward this conjecture by proving that the Turán density of $\mathcal{C}^-_{\ell}$ is $1/4$, for every sufficiently large $\ell$ not divisible by $3$. One of the main ingredients of our proof is a forbidden-subhypergraph characterization of the hypergraphs, for which there exists a tournament on the same vertex set such that every hyperedge is a cyclic triangle in this tournament. A byproduct of our method is a human-checkable proof for the upper bound on the maximum number of almost similar triangles in a planar point set, which was recently proved using the method of flag algebras by Balogh, Clemen, and Lidický.
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spellingShingle Turán density of long tight cycle minus one hyperedge
Balogh, József
Luo, Haoran
Combinatorics
05C35, 05C65, 05D05
Denote by $\mathcal{C}^-_{\ell}$ the $3$-uniform hypergraph obtained by removing one hyperedge from the tight cycle on $\ell$ vertices. It is conjectured that the Turán density of $\mathcal{C}^-_{5}$ is $1/4$. In this paper, we make progress toward this conjecture by proving that the Turán density of $\mathcal{C}^-_{\ell}$ is $1/4$, for every sufficiently large $\ell$ not divisible by $3$. One of the main ingredients of our proof is a forbidden-subhypergraph characterization of the hypergraphs, for which there exists a tournament on the same vertex set such that every hyperedge is a cyclic triangle in this tournament. A byproduct of our method is a human-checkable proof for the upper bound on the maximum number of almost similar triangles in a planar point set, which was recently proved using the method of flag algebras by Balogh, Clemen, and Lidický.
title Turán density of long tight cycle minus one hyperedge
topic Combinatorics
05C35, 05C65, 05D05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10530