Coloring uniform hypergraphs with few colors

  • Authors:
  • Alexandr Kostochka

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois and Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

  • Venue:
  • Random Structures & Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Let m(r, k) denote the minimum number of edges in an r-uniform hypergraph that is not k-colorable. We give a new lower bound on m(r, k) for fixed k and large r. Namely, we prove that if k ≥ 2n, then m(r, k) ≥ ∈(k)kr(r/ln r)n/(n+1).