Speaker: 

Bjarne Schuelke

Institution: 

Caltech

Time: 

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

440R Rowland Hall

Here we consider the hypergraph Tur\'an problem in uniformly dense hypergraphs as was suggested by Erd\H{o}s and S\'os. Given a 3-graph F, the uniform Tur\'an density πu(F) of F is defined as the supremum over all d[0,1] for which there is an F-free uniformly d-dense 3-graph, where uniformly d-dense means that every linearly sized subhypergraph has density at least d. Recently, Glebov, Kr\'al', and Volec and, independently, Reiher, R\"odl, and Schacht proved that πu(K(3)4)=14, solving a conjecture by Erd\H{o}s and S\'os. There are very few hypergraphs for which the uniform Tur\'an density is known. In this work, we determine the uniform Tur\'an density of the 3-graph on five vertices that is obtained from K(3)4 by adding an additional vertex whose link forms a matching on the vertices of K(3)4. Further, we point to two natural intermediate problems on the way to determining πu(K(3)4) and solve the first of these.

 

This talk is based on joint work with August Chen.