On universal hypergraphs

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Abstract: A hypergraph H is called universal for a family mathcalF of hypergraphs, if it contains every hypergraph FinmathcalF as a copy. For the family of r-uniform hypergraphs with maximum vertex degree bounded by Delta and at most n vertices any universal hypergraph has to contain Omega(nr−r/Delta) many edges. We exploit constructions of Alon and Capalbo to obtain universal r-uniform hypergraphs with the optimal number of edges O(nr−r/Delta) when r is even, rmidDelta or Delta=2. Further we generalize the result of Alon and Asodi about optimal universal graphs for the family of graphs with at most m edges and no isolated vertices to hypergraphs.











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