Abstract
Given a fixed hypergraph H, let wsat(n,H) denote the smallest number of edges in an n-vertex hypergraph G, with the property that one can sequentially add the edges missing from G, so that whenever an edge is added, a new copy of H is created. The study of wsat(n, H) was introduced by Bollobás in 1968, and turned out to be one of the most influential topics in extremal combinatorics. While for most H very little is known regarding wsat(n, H), Alon proved in 1985 that for every graph H there is a limiting constant CH so that wsat(n, H) = (CH + o(1))n. Tuza conjectured in 1992 that Alon’s theorem can be (appropriately) extended to arbitrary r-uniform hypergraphs. In this paper we prove this conjecture.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2795-2805 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society |
| Volume | 151 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jul 2023 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics