Covering and tiling hypergraphs with tight cycles

Jie Han, Allan Lo, Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala*

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Abstract

A k-uniform tight cycle is a hypergraph on s > k vertices with a cyclic ordering such that every k consecutive vertices under this ordering form an edge. The pair (k, s) is admissible if gcd (k, s) = 1 or k / gcd (k,s) is even. We prove that if and H is a k-uniform hypergraph with minimum codegree at least (1/2 + o(1))|V(H)|, then every vertex is covered by a copy of. The bound is asymptotically sharp if (k, s) is admissible. Our main tool allows us to arbitrarily rearrange the order in which a tight path wraps around a complete k-partite k-uniform hypergraph, which may be of independent interest. For hypergraphs F and H, a perfect F-Tiling in H is a spanning collection of vertex-disjoint copies of F. For, there are currently only a handful of known F-Tiling results when F is k-uniform but not k-partite. If s 0 mod k, then is not k-partite. Here we prove an F-Tiling result for a family of non-k-partite k-uniform hypergraphs F. Namely, for, every k-uniform hypergraph H with minimum codegree at least (1/2 + 1/(2s) + o(1))|V(H)| has a perfect-Tiling. Moreover, the bound is asymptotically sharp if k is even and (k, s) is admissible.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)288-329
Number of pages42
JournalCombinatorics Probability and Computing
Volume30
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2021
Externally publishedYes

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