Triangle-free subgraphs of hypergraphs

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Abstract: In this paper, we consider an analog of the well-studied extremal problem for triangle-free subgraphs of graphs for uniform hypergraphs. A loose triangle is a hypergraph T consisting of three edges e,f and g such that |ecapf|=|fcapg|=|gcape|=1 and ecapfcapg=emptyset. We prove that if H is an n-vertex r-uniform hypergraph with maximum degree riangle, then as riangleightarrowinfty, the number of edges in a densest T-free subhypergraph of H is at least [ frac{e(H)}{ riangle^{frac{r-2}{r-1} + o(1)}}.] For r=3, this is tight up to the o(1) term in the exponent. We also show that if H is a random n-vertex triple system with edge-probability p such that pn3ightarrowinfty as nightarrowinfty, then with high probability as nightarrowinfty, the number of edges in a densest T-free subhypergraph is [ minBigl{(1-o(1))p{nchoose3},p^{frac{1}{3}}n^{2-o(1)}Bigr}.] We use the method of containers together with probabilistic methods and a connection to the extremal problem for arithmetic progressions of length three due to Ruzsa and Szemer'{e}di.












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