On Computing the Frequencies of Induced Subhypergraphs

  • Authors:
  • Brendan Nagle

  • Affiliations:
  • bnagle@math.usf.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be an $r$-uniform hypergraph with $f$ vertices, where $fr\geq3$. In [Inform. Process. Lett., 99 (2006), pp. 130-134], Yuster posed the problem of whether there exists an algorithm which, for a given $r$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ with $n$ vertices, computes the number of induced copies of $\mathcal{F}$ in $\mathcal{H}$ in time $o(n^f)$. The analogous question for graphs ($r=2$) was known to hold from an $O(n^{f-\varepsilon})$ time algorithm of Nešetřil and Poljak [Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin., 26 (1985), pp. 415-419] (for a constant $\varepsilon=\varepsilon_f0$ which is independent of $n$). Here, we present an algorithm for this problem, when $r\geq3$, with running time $O(n^f/\log_2n)$.