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Triangle-degrees in graphs and tetrahedron coverings in 3-graphs

Part of:Graph theoryExtremal combinatorics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2020

Victor Falgas-Ravry,
Klas Markström and
Yi Zhao
Victor Falgas-Ravry
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå Universitet, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
Klas Markström*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå Universitet, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
Yi Zhao
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
*
*Corresponding author. Email: klas.markstrom@umu.se
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We investigate a covering problem in 3-uniform hypergraphs (3-graphs): Given a 3-graph F, what is c1(n, F), the least integer d such that if G is an n-vertex 3-graph with minimum vertex-degree $\delta_1(G)>d$ then every vertex of G is contained in a copy of F in G?

We asymptotically determine c1(n, F) when F is the generalized triangle $K_4^{(3)-}$, and we give close to optimal bounds in the case where F is the tetrahedron $K_4^{(3)}$ (the complete 3-graph on 4 vertices).

This latter problem turns out to be a special instance of the following problem for graphs: Given an n-vertex graph G with $m> n^2/4$ edges, what is the largest t such that some vertex in G must be contained in t triangles? We give upper bound constructions for this problem that we conjecture are asymptotically tight. We prove our conjecture for tripartite graphs, and use flag algebra computations to give some evidence of its truth in the general case.

MSC classification

Primary:05C35: Extremal problems
Secondary:05C65: Hypergraphs05D99: None of the above, but in this section

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , March 2021, pp. 175 - 199
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