A hypergraph regularity method for generalised Turan problems

dc.creatorKeevash, Peter
dc.date2008-09-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:04:24Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:04:24Z
dc.descriptionWe describe a method that we believe may be foundational for a comprehensive theory of generalised Turan problems. The cornerstone of our approach is a quasirandom counting lemma for quasirandom hypergraphs, which extends the standard counting lemma by not only counting copies of a particular configuration but also showing that these copies are evenly distributed. We demonstrate the power of the method by proving a conjecture of Mubayi on the codegree threshold of the Fano plane, that any 3-graph on n vertices for which every pair of vertices is contained in more than n/2 edges must contain a Fano plane, for n sufficiently large. For projective planes over fields of odd size q we show that the codegree threshold is between n/2-q+1 and n/2, but for PG_2(4) we find the somewhat surprising phenomenon that the threshold is less than (1/2-c)n for some small c>0. We conclude by setting out a program for future developments of this method to tackle other problems.
dc.description43 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3674
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3674
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/169661
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject05C35, 05C65
dc.titleA hypergraph regularity method for generalised Turan problems
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