Large cliques in hypergraphs with forbidden substructures

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Abstract: A result due to Gy'arf'as, Hubenko, and Solymosi (answering a question of Erd"os) states that if a graph G on n vertices does not contain K2,2 as an induced subgraph yet has at least edges, then G has a complete subgraph on at least fracc210n vertices. In this paper we suggest a "higher-dimensional" analogue of the notion of an induced K2,2 which allows us to generalize their result to k-uniform hypergraphs. Our result also has an interesting consequence in discrete geometry. In particular, it implies that the fractional Helly theorem can be derived as a purely combinatorial consequence of the colorful Helly theorem.











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