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A hypergraph is linear if any two of its edges intersect in at most one vertex. The Sail (or $3$-fan) $F^3$ is the $3$-uniform linear hypergraph consisting of $3$ edges $f_1, f_2, f_3$ pairwise intersecting in the same vertex $v$ and an additional edge $g$ intersecting all $f_i$ in a vertex different from $v$. The linear Tur\'an number $ex_{lin}(n, F^3)$ is the maximum number of edges in a $3$-uniform linear hypergraph on $n$ vertices that does not contain a copy of $F^3$. F\"{u}redi and Gy\'arf\'as proved that if $n = 3k$, then $ex_{lin}(n, F^3) = k^2$ and the only extremal hypergraphs in this case are transversal designs. They also showed that if $n = 3k+2$, then $ex_{lin}(n, F^3) = k^2+k$, and the only extremal hypergraphs are truncated designs (which are obtained from a transversal design on $3k+3$ vertices with $3$ groups by removing one vertex and all the hyperedges containing it) along with two other small hypergraphs. However, the case when $n =3k+1$ was left open. In this paper, we solve this remaining case by proving that $ex_{lin}(n, F^3) = k^2+1$ if $n = 3k+1$, answering a question of F\"{u}redi and Gy\'arf\'as. We also characterize all the extremal hypergraphs. The difficulty of this case is due to the fact that these extremal examples are rather non-standard. In particular, they are not derived from transversal designs like in the other cases. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2021 | 10.37236/9904 | Electron. J. Comb. |
DocType | Volume | Issue |
Journal | 28 | 4 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
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3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Ergemlidze Beka | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Győri Ervin | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Methuku Abhishek | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |