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Main Authors: Arnold, Fabian, Gishboliner, Lior, Sudakov, Benny
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04154
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author Arnold, Fabian
Gishboliner, Lior
Sudakov, Benny
author_facet Arnold, Fabian
Gishboliner, Lior
Sudakov, Benny
contents The celebrated Erdős-Hajnal conjecture says that any graph without a fixed induced subgraph $H$ contains a very large homogeneous set. A direct analog of this conjecture is not true for hypergraphs. In this paper we present two natural variants of this problem which do hold for hypergraphs. We show that for every $r \geq 3$, $m \geq m_0(r)$ and $0 \leq f \leq \binom{m}{r}$, if an $r$-graph $G$ does not contain $m$ vertices spanning exactly $f$ edges, then $G$ contains much bigger homogeneous sets than what is guaranteed to exist in general $r$-graphs. We also prove that if a $3$-graph $G$ does not contain homogeneous sets of polynomial size, then for every $m \geq 3$ there are $Ω(m^3)$ values of $f$ such that $G$ contains $m$ vertices spanning exactly $f$ edges. This makes progress on a problem of Axenovich, Bradač, Gishboliner, Mubayi and Weber.
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spellingShingle Two Erdos-Hajnal-type theorems for forbidden order-size pairs
Arnold, Fabian
Gishboliner, Lior
Sudakov, Benny
Combinatorics
The celebrated Erdős-Hajnal conjecture says that any graph without a fixed induced subgraph $H$ contains a very large homogeneous set. A direct analog of this conjecture is not true for hypergraphs. In this paper we present two natural variants of this problem which do hold for hypergraphs. We show that for every $r \geq 3$, $m \geq m_0(r)$ and $0 \leq f \leq \binom{m}{r}$, if an $r$-graph $G$ does not contain $m$ vertices spanning exactly $f$ edges, then $G$ contains much bigger homogeneous sets than what is guaranteed to exist in general $r$-graphs. We also prove that if a $3$-graph $G$ does not contain homogeneous sets of polynomial size, then for every $m \geq 3$ there are $Ω(m^3)$ values of $f$ such that $G$ contains $m$ vertices spanning exactly $f$ edges. This makes progress on a problem of Axenovich, Bradač, Gishboliner, Mubayi and Weber.
title Two Erdos-Hajnal-type theorems for forbidden order-size pairs
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04154