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A quantitative Lov\'asz criterion for Property B

Authors :
Ferber, Asaf
Shapira, Asaf
Source :
Combinator. Probab. Comp. 29 (2020) 956-960
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

A well known observation of Lov\'asz is that if a hypergraph is not $2$-colorable, then at least one pair of its edges intersect at a single vertex. %This very simple criterion turned out to be extremly useful . In this short paper we consider the quantitative version of Lov\'asz's criterion. That is, we ask how many pairs of edges intersecting at a single vertex, should belong to a non $2$-colorable $n$-uniform hypergraph? Our main result is an {\em exact} answer to this question, which further characterizes all the extremal hypergraphs. The proof combines Bollob\'as's two families theorem with Pluhar's randomized coloring algorithm.<br />Comment: A note on Property B

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Combinatorics
05D05

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Combinator. Probab. Comp. 29 (2020) 956-960
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1903.04968
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963548320000334