Hypergraph Saturation Irregularities
Abstract
Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $r$-graphs. An $r$-graph $G$ is called $\mathcal{F}$-saturated if it does not contain any members of $\mathcal{F}$ but adding any edge creates a copy of some $r$-graph in $\mathcal{F}$. The saturation number $\operatorname{sat}(\mathcal{F},n)$ is the minimum number of edges in an $\mathcal{F}$-saturated graph on $n$ vertices. We prove that there exists a finite family $\mathcal{F}$ such that $\operatorname{sat}(\mathcal{F},n) / n^{r-1}$ does not tend to a limit. This settles a question of Pikhurko.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- March 2018
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1803.05799
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180305799B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Combinatorics;
- 05C65;
- 05C35
- E-Print:
- doi:10.37236/7727