Extremal problems for ordered hypergraphs: small patterns and some enumeration

  • Authors:
  • Martin Klazar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics (KAM), Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITI), Charles University, Malostranské náměsti 25, Praha 118 00, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Functions exe(F,n) and exi(F,n) count edges and vertex-edge incidences in extremal n-vertex hypergraphs avoiding, in the ordered sense, a hypergraph F. We determine them exactly for F consisting of distinct singleton edges and give a survey of exact results for the 55 hypergraphs F with at most four incidences. In the enumerative part we give formulae and recurrences for the numbers of hypergraphs with n incidences. We find rough asymptotics of these numbers and derive identities analogous to Dobinski's formula for Bell numbers.