A new generalization of Mantel's theorem to k-graphs

  • Authors:
  • Dhruv Mubayi;Oleg Pikhurko

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2007

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Let the k-graph Fan^k consist of k edges that pairwise intersect exactly in one vertex x, plus one more edge intersecting each of these edges in a vertex different from x. We prove that, for n sufficiently large, the maximum number of edges in an n-vertex k-graph containing no copy of Fan^k is @?"i"="1^k@?n+i-1k@?, which equals the number of edges in a complete k-partite k-graph with almost equal parts. This is the only extremal example. This result is a special case of our more general theorem that applies to a larger class of excluded configurations.