Almost all hypergraphs without Fano planes are bipartite

  • Authors:
  • Yury Person;Mathias Schacht

  • Affiliations:
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SODA '09 Proceedings of the twentieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The hypergraph of the Fano plane is the unique 3-uniform hypergraph with 7 triples on 7 vertices in which every pair of vertices is contained in a unique triple. This hypergraph is not 2-colorable, but becomes so on deleting any hyperedge from it. We show that taking uniformly at random a labeled 3-uniform hypergraph H on n vertices not containing the hypergraph of the Fano plane, H turns out to be 2-colorable with probability at least 1 -- 2-Ω(n2). For the proof of this result we will study structural properties of Fano-free hypergraphs.