An Extremal Problem on Lagrangians of Hypergraphs

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An Extremal Problem on Lagrangians of Hypergraphs

YAOYu-ping1*

(College of Mathematics and Econometrics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China)

KeywordsLagrangians;FranklandFürediconjecture;colexorder

ForasetVandapositiveintegerr,letV(r)denotethefamilyofallr-subsetsofV.Anr-uniformgraphorr-graphGconsistsofasetV(G)ofverticesandasetE(G)?V(G)(r)ofedges.Anedgee={a1,a2,…,ar}willbesimplydenotedbya1a2…ar.Anr-graphHisasubgraphofanr-graphG,denotedbyH?GifV(H)?V(G)andE(H)?E(G).Thecomplementofanr-graphGisdenotedbyGc.Acompleter-graphontverticesisalsocalledacliqueofordert.LetNbethesetofallpositiveintegers.Foranyintegern∈N, we denote the set {1, 2, 3, …,n} by [n]. Let [n](r)represent the completer-uniform graph on the vertex set [n].

In [1], Motzkin and Straus provided the following simple expression for the Lagrangian of a 2-graph.

TheobviousgeneralizationofMotzkinandStraus’resulttohypergraphsisfalsebecausetherearemanyexamplesofhypergraphsthatdonotachievetheirLagrangianonanypropersubhypergraph.Indeed,estimatingtheLagrangianofahypergraphismuchdifficult.Lagrangiansofhypergraphshasbeenprovedtobeausefultoolinhypergraphextremalproblems.Inmostapplications,anupperboundoftheLagrangiansofcertainclassofhypergraphsisneeded.FranklandFüredi[2]askedthefollowingquestion.Givenr≥3andm∈N, how large can the Lagrangian of anr-graph withmedges be? For distinctA,B∈N(r)wesaythatAislessthanBinthecolexorderifmax(AΔB)∈B,whereAΔB=(AB)∪(BA).LetCr,mbether-uniformhypergraphwithmedgesformedbytakingthefirstmsetsinthecolexorderofN(r). The following conjecture of Frankl and Füredi (if it is true) provides a solution to the question mentioned at the beginning.

Conjecture 1 (Frankl and Füredi[2]) IfGis ar-graph withmedges, thenλ(G)≤λ(Cr,m).

Definition2Anr-graphG=([n],E)isleft-compressedifj1j2…jr∈Eimpliesi1i2…ir∈Eprovidedip≤jpforeveryp,1≤p≤r.

Wearegoingtoprovethefollowingresult.

Theremainingproofofthispaperisorganizedasfollows.InSection1,wegivesomepremilinaryresults.InSection2,wegivetheproofofTheorem2.

1Preliminaries

(1)

Remark1Anr-graphG=([n],E)isleft-compressedifandonlyifEji=forany1≤i

ThefollowinglemmagivessomenecessaryconditionsofanoptimalweightingforG.

(a) In Lemma 1, part (Ⅰ) implies that

In particular, ifGis left-compressed, then

for anyi,jsatisfying 1≤i

(b) IfGis left-compressed, then for anyi,jsatisfying 1≤i

(2)

holds. IfGis left-compressed andEij=fori,jsatisfying 1≤i

x1≥x2≥…≥xn≥0.

(3)

We will also give some useful results to apply the following results in the proof.

Sunetal.in[7]provedthatλ(G)≤λ(C3,m)if|EΔE″|≤8.Later,Sunetalextendedtheresults,whichisTheorem3.

2ProofofTheorem2

ProofofTheorem2LetGbethe3-graphsatisfyingconditionsofTheorem5.If[t-1](3)?G,thenbyTheorem4,wehaveλ(G)≤λ(C3,m).Otherwise,wewillprovethefollowinglemmaswhichimplyTheorem2.

Next,wewillgivetheproofofLemma4-7.Infact,theproofsofotherthreelemmasaresimilartotheproofofLemma4.Weomitthedetailsoftheproofofotherlemmasandwillgiveonlyanoutlineoftheproofs.InSection2.1,wegivetheproofofLemma4.InSection2.2-2.4,wegivetheoutlineoftheproofofLemma4-7,respectively.

2.1ProofofLemma4

xt+xt-1+xt-2+…+xt-2-i+1-x1≥0.

(4)

To verify (4), we have

(5)

Let us continue our proof. We divide the proof into two cases:a=0 anda≥1.

By Remark 2,

(6)

So

(7)

(8)

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Then

(10)

(11)

(13)

Note that

(14)

where

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and

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(17)

(18)

(19)

(20)

By (4) (14), (18) and (20), we have

(21)

Therefore,λ(C3,m)≥λ(G′)≥λ(G).

2.2OutlineoftheproofofLemma5

We divide the prove into two parts:p=3 andp>3.

PartⅠp=3,thenwehavej+1≥i.Wedividetheproveintotwocases: j≥2andj=1.

2.3OutlineoftheProofofLemma6

PartⅠp=3.Wedividethisproveintotwocases: i=1andi≥2.

PartⅡp≥4.Wedivideourproofintotwocases: p=4, a=0andp≥5ora≥1.

Case1p=4, a=0.Ifj=1,thenwehavei=1ori=2.Wedividethisproveintothreesubcases: j≥2; j=1, i=1; j=1, i=2.

2.4OutlineofproofLemma7

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極值問題——超圖的拉格朗日

姚宇萍*，彭岳建

(湖南大學數(shù)學與計量經(jīng)濟學院，湖南 長沙410082)

摘要設G=([t],E)是一個有m條邊的左壓的3-一致超圖，其中，并設[t-2](3)?G.本文證明，如果按同余字典序排列中最小元素是(t-p-i)(t-p)并且,則有λ(G)≤λ(C3,m).

關鍵詞拉格朗日；Frankl and Füredi 猜想；同余字典序

中圖分類號O157.5

文獻標識碼A

文章編號1000-2537(2015)06-0068-08

*通訊作者,E-mail：yupingyao1989@163.com, PENG Yue-jian2

基金項目：National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.11271116)

收稿日期：2015-01-27

DOI:10.7612/j.issn.1000-2537.2016.01.012