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We investigate the impact of a high-degree vertex in Tur\'{a}n problems for degenerate hypergraphs (including graphs). We say an $r$-graph $F$ is bounded if there exist constants $\alpha, \beta>0$ such that for large $n$, every $n$-vertex $F$-free $r$-graph with a vertex of degree at least $\alpha \binom{n-1}{r-1}$ has fewer than $(1-\beta) \cdot \mathrm{ex}(n,F)$ edges. The boundedness property is crucial for recent works~\cite{HHLLYZ23a,DHLY24} that aim to extend the classical Hajnal--Szemer\'{e}di Theorem and the anti-Ramsey theorems of Erd\H{o}s--Simonovits--S\'{o}s. We show that many well-studied degenerate hypergraphs, such as all even cycles, most complete bipartite graphs, and the expansion of most complete bipartite graphs, are bounded. In addition, to prove the boundedness of the expansion of complete bipartite graphs, we introduce and solve a Zarankiewicz-type problem for $3$-graphs, strengthening a theorem by Kostochka--Mubayi--Verstra\"{e}te~\cite{KMV15}., Comment: comments are welcome

Given integers $r > t \ge 1$ and a real number $p > 0$, the $(t,p)$-norm $\left\lVert \mathcal{H} \right\rVert_{t,p}$ of an $r$-graph $\mathcal{H}$ is the sum of the $p$-th power of the degrees $d_{\mathcal{H}}(T)$ over all $t$-subsets $T \subset V(\mathcal{H})$. We conduct a systematic study of the Tur\'{a}n-type problem of determining $\mathrm{ex}_{t,p}(n,\mathcal{F})$, which is the maximum of $\left\lVert \mathcal{H} \right\rVert_{t,p}$ over all $n$-vertex $\mathcal{F}$-free $r$-graphs $\mathcal{H}$. We establish several basic properties for the $(t,p)$-norm of $r$-graphs, enabling us to derive general theorems from the recently established framework in~\cite{CL24} that are useful for determining $\mathrm{ex}_{t,p}(n,\mathcal{F})$ and proving the corresponding stability. We determine the asymptotic value of $\mathrm{ex}_{t,p}(n,H_{F}^{r})$ for all feasible combinations of $(r,t,p)$ and for every graph $F$ with chromatic number greater than $r$, where $H_{F}^{r}$ represents the expansion of $F$. In the case where $F$ is edge-critical and $p \ge 1$, we establish strong stability and determine the exact value of $\mathrm{ex}_{t,p}(n,H_{F}^{r})$ for all sufficiently large $n$. These results extend the seminal theorems of Erd\H{o}s--Stone--Simonovits, Andr\'{a}sfai--Erd\H{o}s--S\'{o}s, Erd\H{o}s--Simonovits, and a classical theorem of Mubayi. For the $3$-uniform generalized triangle $F_5$, we determine the exact value of $\mathrm{ex}_{2,p}(n,F_5)$ for all $p \ge 1$ and its asymptotic value for all $p \in [1/2, 1]\cup \{k^{-1} \colon k \in 6\mathbb{N}^{+}+\{0,2\}\}$. This extends old theorems of Bollob\'{a}s, Frankl--F\"{u}redi, and a recent result of Balogh--Clemen--Lidick\'{y}. Our proofs utilize results on the graph inducibility problem, Steiner triple systems, and the feasible region problem introduced by Liu--Mubayi., Comment: comments are welcome

For an $r$-graph $F$ and integers $n,t$ satisfying $t \le n/v(F)$, let $\mathrm{ar}(n,tF)$ denote the minimum integer $N$ such that every edge-coloring of $K_{n}^{r}$ using $N$ colors contains a rainbow copy of $tF$, where $tF$ is the $r$-graphs consisting of $t$ vertex-disjoint copies of $F$. The case $t=1$ is the classical anti-Ramsey problem proposed by Erd\H{o}s--Simonovits--S\'{o}s~\cite{ESS75}. When $F$ is a single edge, this becomes the rainbow matching problem introduced by Schiermeyer~\cite{Sch04} and \"{O}zkahya--Young~\cite{OY13}. We conduct a systematic study of $\mathrm{ar}(n,tF)$ for the case where $t$ is much smaller than $\mathrm{ex}(n,F)/n^{r-1}$. Our first main result provides a reduction of $\mathrm{ar}(n,tF)$ to $\mathrm{ar}(n,2F)$ when $F$ is bounded and smooth, two properties satisfied by most previously studied hypergraphs. Complementing the first result, the second main result, which utilizes gaps between Tur\'{a}n numbers, determines $\mathrm{ar}(n,tF)$ for relatively smaller $t$. Together, these two results determine $\mathrm{ar}(n,tF)$ for a large class of hypergraphs. Additionally, the latter result has the advantage of being applicable to hypergraphs with unknown Tur\'{a}n densities, such as the famous tetrahedron $K_{4}^{3}$., Comment: 19 pages, 1 figues, comments are welcome

Extending the work of Liu--Mubayi--Reiher~\cite{LMR23unif} on hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problems, we introduce the notion of vertex-extendability for general extremal problems on hypergraphs and develop an axiomatized framework for proving strong stability for extremal problems satisfying certain properties. This framework simplifies the typically complex and tedious process of obtaining stability and exact results for extremal problems into a much simpler task of verifying their vertex-extendability. We present several applications of this method in generalized Tur\'{a}n problems including the Erd\H{o}s Pentagon Problem, hypergraph Tur\'{a}n-goodness, and generalized Tur\'{a}n problems of hypergraphs whose shadow is complete multipartite. These results significantly strengthen and extend previous results of Erd\H{o}s~\cite{Erdos62}, Gy\H{o}ri--J\'{a}nos--Simonovits~\cite{GPS91}, Grzesik~\cite{Gre12}, Hatami--Hladk\'{y}--Kr\'{a}\v{l}--Norine--Razborov~\cite{HHKNR13}, Morrison--Nir--Norin--Rz\k{a}\.{z}ewski--Wesolek~\cite{MNNRPW23}, Gerbner--Palmer~\cite{GP22}, and others., Comment: comments are welcome

For an integer $r \ge 3$ and a subset $L \subset [0,r-1]$, a graph $G$ is $(K_{r}, L)$-intersecting if the number of vertices in the intersection of every pair of $K_r$ in $G$ belongs to $L$. We study the maximum number of $K_r$ in an $n$-vertex $(K_{r}, L)$-intersecting graphs. The celebrated Ruzsa--Szemer\'{e}di Theorem corresponds to the case $r=3$ and $L = \{0,1\}$. For general $L$ with $2 \le |L| \le r-1$, we establish the upper bound $\left(1-\frac{1}{3r}\right) \prod_{\ell \in L}\frac{n-\ell}{r- \ell}$ for large $n$, which improves the bound provided by the celebrated Deza--Erd\H{o}s--Frankl Theorem by a factor of $1-\frac{1}{3r}$. In the special case where $L = \{t, t+1, \ldots, r-1\}$, we derive the tight upper bound for large $n$ and establish a corresponding stability result. This is an extension of the seminal Erd\H{o}s--Ko--Rado Theorem on $t$-intersecting systems to the generalized Tur\'{a}n setting. Our proof for the Deza--Erd\H{o}s--Frankl part involves an interesting combination of the $\Delta$-system method and Tur\'{a}n's theorem. Meanwhile, for the Erd\H{o}s--Ko--Rado part, we employ the stability method, which relies on a theorem of Frankl regarding $t$-intersecting systems., Comment: University of Warwick MMath student R-project

The classical Andr\'{a}sfai--Erd\H{o}s--S\'{o}s Theorem states that for $\ell\ge 2$, every $n$-vertex $K_{\ell+1}$-free graph with minimum degree greater than $\frac{3\ell-4}{3\ell-1}n$ must be $\ell$-partite. We establish a simple criterion for $r$-graphs, $r \geq 2$, to exhibit an Andr\'{a}sfai--Erd\H{o}s--S\'{o}s type property, also known as degree-stability. This leads to a classification of most previously studied hypergraph families with this property. An immediate application of this result, combined with a general theorem by Keevash--Lenz--Mubayi, solves the spectral Tur\'{a}n problems for a large class of hypergraphs. For every $r$-graph $F$ with degree-stability, there is a simple algorithm to decide the $F$-freeness of an $n$-vertex $r$-graph with minimum degree greater than $(\pi(F) - \varepsilon_F)\binom{n}{r-1}$ in time $O(n^r)$, where $\varepsilon_F >0$ is a constant. In particular, for the complete graph $K_{\ell+1}$, we can take $\varepsilon_{K_{\ell+1}} = (3\ell^2-\ell)^{-1}$, and this bound is tight up to some multiplicative constant factor unless $\mathbf{W[1]} = \mathbf{FPT}$. Based on a result by Chen--Huang--Kanj--Xia, we further show that for every fixed $C > 0$, this problem cannot be solved in time $n^{o(\ell)}$ if we replace $\varepsilon_{K_{\ell+1}}$ with $(C\ell)^{-1}$ unless $\mathbf{ETH}$ fails. Furthermore, we apply the degree-stability of $K_{\ell+1}$ to decide the $K_{\ell+1}$-freeness of graphs whose size is close to the Tur\'{a}n bound in time $(\ell+1)n^2$, partially improving a recent result by Fomin--Golovach--Sagunov--Simonov. As an intermediate step, we show that for a specific class of $r$-graphs $F$, the (surjective) $F$-coloring problem can be solved in time $O(n^r)$, provided the input $r$-graph has $n$ vertices and a large minimum degree, refining several previous results., Comment: fixed some typos, changed the title, reorganized to enhance readability for combinatorial readers, comments are welcome

The expansion of a graph $F$, denoted by $F^3$, is the $3$-graph obtained from $F$ by adding a new vertex to each edge such that different edges receive different vertices. For large $n$, we establish tight upper bounds for: The maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $3$-graph that does not contain $T^3$ for certain class $\mathcal{T}$ of trees, sharpening (partially) a result of Kostochka--Mubayi--Verstra\"{e}te. The minimum number of colors needed to color the complete $n$-vertex $3$-graph to ensure the existence of a rainbow copy of $F^3$ when $F$ is a graph obtained from some tree $T\in \mathcal{T}$ by adding a new edge, extending anti-Ramsey results on $P_{2t}^3$ by Gu--Li--Shi and $C_{2t}^3$ by Tang--Li--Yan. The maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $3$-graph whose shadow does not contain the shadow of $C_{k}^3$ or $T^3$ for $T\in \mathcal{T}$, answering a question of Lv \etal on generalized Tur\'{a}n problems., Comment: 33 pages + appendix, comments are welcome

The anti-Ramsey number $\mathrm{ar}(n,F)$ of an $r$-graph $F$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color the complete $n$-vertex $r$-graph to ensure the existence of a rainbow copy of $F$. We prove a general upper bound for $\mathrm{ar}(n,F)$ when $F$ is the expansion of a hypergraph with smaller uniformality, which refines the general bound $\mathrm{ar}(n,F) = \mathrm{ex}(n,F_{-}) + o(n^r)$ by Erd{\H o}s--Simonovits--S{\' o}s. Here $F_{-}$ is the family of $r$-graphs obtained from $F$ by removing one edge. We also determine the exact value of $\mathrm{ar}(n,F)$ for large $n$ when $F$ is the expansion of a complete graph, extending a result of Erd{\H o}s--Simonovits--S{\' o}s from graphs to hypergraphs., Comment: fixed a minor mistake in the proof of Claim 3.5

Let $\alpha(\mathbb{F}_q^d,p)$ denote the maximum size of a general position set in a $p$-random subset of $\mathbb{F}_q^d$. We determine the order of magnitude of $\alpha(\mathbb{F}_q^2,p)$ up to polylogarithmic factors for all possible values of $p$, improving the previous results obtained by Roche-Newton--Warren and Bhowmick--Roche-Newton. For $d \ge 3$ we prove upper bounds for $\alpha(\mathbb{F}_q^d,p)$ that are essentially tight within certain ranges for $p$. We establish the upper bound $2^{(1+o(1))q}$ for the number of general position sets in $\mathbb{F}_q^d$, which matches the trivial lower bound $2^{q}$ asymptotically in the exponent. We also refine this counting result by proving an asymptotically tight (in the exponent) upper bound for the number of general position sets with a fixed size. The latter result for $d=2$ improves a result of Roche-Newton--Warren. Our proofs are grounded in the hypergraph container method, and additionally, for $d=2$ we also leverage the pseudorandomness of the point-line incidence graph of $\mathbb{F}_{q}^2$., Comment: polished for better readability, fixed typos

For a nondegenerate $r$-graph $F$, large $n$, and $t$ in the regime $[0, c_{F} n]$, where $c_F>0$ is a constant depending only on $F$, we present a general approach for determining the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $r$-graph that does not contain $t+1$ vertex-disjoint copies of $F$. In fact, our method results in a rainbow version of the above result and includes a characterization of the extremal constructions. Our approach applies to many well-studied hypergraphs (including graphs) such as the edge-critical graphs, the Fano plane, the generalized triangles, hypergraph expansions, the expanded triangles, and hypergraph books. Our results extend old results of Simonovits~\cite{SI68} and Moon~\cite{Moon68} on complete graphs and can be viewed as a step towards a general density version of the classical Corr\'{a}di--Hajnal Theorem~\cite{CH63}., Comment: corrected some typo and added a theorem (THM 2.7) about expanded Erdos-Sos trees

We prove that, for any finite set of minimal $r$-graph patterns, there is a finite family $\mathcal F$ of forbidden $r$-graphs such that the extremal Tur\'an constructions for $\mathcal F$ are precisely the maximum $r$-graphs obtainable from mixing the given patterns in any way via blowups and recursion. This extends the result by the second author~\cite{PI14}, where the above statement was established for a single pattern. We present two applications of this result. First, we construct a finite family $\mathcal F$ of $3$-graphs such that there are exponentially many maximum $\mathcal F$-free $3$-graphs of each large order $n$ and, moreover, the corresponding Tur\'an problem is not finitely stable. Second, we show that there exists a finite family $\mathcal{F}$ of $3$-graphs whose feasible region function attains its maximum on a Cantor-type set of positive Hausdorff dimension., Comment: minor updates

Given a graph $F$, we consider the problem of determining the densest possible pseudorandom graph that contains no copy of $F$. We provide an embedding procedure that improves a general result of Conlon, Fox, and Zhao which gives an upper bound on the density. In particular, our result implies that optimally pseudorandom graphs with density greater than $n^{-1/3}$ must contain a copy of the Peterson graph, while the previous best result gives the bound $n^{-1/4}$. Moreover, we conjecture that the exponent $1/3$ in our bound is tight. We also construct the densest known pseudorandom $K_{2,3}$-free graphs that are also triangle-free. Finally, we obtain the densest known construction of clique-free pseudorandom graphs due to Bishnoi, Ihringer and Pepe in a novel way and give a different proof that they have no large clique., Comment: fixed some typo, and added Ferdinand Ihringer's comment which says that Kopparty's construction contains the Petersen graph when p=2 and h=3

Grosu [On the algebraic and topological structure of the set of Tur\'{a}n densities. \emph{J. Combin. Theory Ser. B} \textbf{118} (2016) 137--185] asked if there exist an integer $r\ge 3$ and a finite family of $r$-graphs whose Tur\'{a}n density, as a real number, has (algebraic) degree greater than~$r-1$. In this note we show that, for all integers $r\ge 3$ and $d$, there exists a finite family of $r$-graphs whose Tur\'{a}n density has degree at least~$d$, thus answering Grosu's question in a strong form., Comment: revised according to referees' reports

We give the first exact and stability results for a hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problem with infinitely many extremal constructions that are far from each other in edit-distance. This includes an example of triple systems with Tur\'{a}n density $2/9$, thus answering some questions posed by the third and fourth authors and Reiher about the feasible region of hypergraphs. Our results also provide extremal constructions whose shadow density is a transcendental number. Our novel approach is to construct certain multilinear polynomials that attain their maximum (in the standard simplex) on a line segment and then to use these polynomials to define an operation on hypergraphs that gives extremal constructions., Comment: journal version, Discrete Analysis 2023:18, 34 pp

Given a partition of a graph into connected components, the membership oracle asserts whether any two vertices of the graph lie in the same component or not. We prove that for $n\ge k\ge 2$, learning the components of an $n$-vertex hidden graph with $k$ components requires at least $(k-1)n-\binom k2$ membership queries. Our result improves on the best known information-theoretic bound of $\Omega(n\log k)$ queries, and exactly matches the query complexity of the algorithm introduced by [Reyzin and Srivastava, 2007] for this problem. Additionally, we introduce an oracle, with access to which one can learn the number of components of $G$ in asymptotically fewer queries than learning the full partition, thus answering another question posed by the same authors. Lastly, we introduce a more applicable version of this oracle, and prove asymptotically tight bounds of $\widetilde\Theta(m)$ queries for both learning and verifying an $m$-edge hidden graph $G$ using it., Comment: Accepted for presentation at the 35th Annual Conference of Learning Theory, 2022