Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B ( IF 1.4 ) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2022.07.001 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen , Letícia Mattos
One of the major problems in combinatorics is to determine the number of r-uniform hypergraphs (r-graphs) on n vertices which are free of certain forbidden structures. This problem dates back to the work of Erdős, Kleitman and Rothschild, who showed that the number of -free graphs on n vertices is . Their work was later extended to forbidding graphs as induced subgraphs by Prömel and Steger.
Here, we consider one of the most basic counting problems for 3-graphs. Let be the 3-graph with 4 vertices and 1 edge. What is the number of induced -free 3-graphs on n vertices? We show that the number of such 3-graphs is of order . More generally, we determine asymptotically the number of induced -free 3-graphs on n vertices for all families of 3-graphs on 4 vertices. We also provide upper bounds on the number of r-graphs on n vertices which do not induce edges on any set of k vertices, where is a list which does not contain 3 consecutive integers in its complement. Our bounds are best possible up to a constant multiplicative factor in the exponent when . The main tool behind our proof is counting the solutions of a constraint satisfaction problem.
中文翻译:
计算没有禁止配置的 r-graph
组合数学中的主要问题之一是确定没有某些禁止结构的n个顶点上的r一致超图(r图)的数量。这个问题可以追溯到 Erdős、Kleitman 和 Rothschild 的工作,他们表明-n个顶点上的自由图是. 他们的工作后来被 Prömel 和 Steger 扩展到禁止图作为诱导子图。
在这里,我们考虑 3-graph 最基本的计数问题之一。让是具有 4 个顶点和 1 条边的 3-图。诱导次数是多少-n个顶点上的自由 3-图?我们证明了这样的 3-图的数量是有序的. 更一般地,我们渐近地确定诱导的数量- 所有族的n个顶点上的免费 3 图4 个顶点上的 3 个图。我们还提供了不诱导的n个顶点上的r图数量的上限任意k个顶点集合上的边,其中是一个在其补码中不包含 3 个连续整数的列表。我们的界限是最好的,直到指数中的一个常数乘法因子,当. 我们证明背后的主要工具是计算约束满足问题的解决方案。