Creating Subgraphs in Semi-Random Hypergraph Games

doi:10.37236/13447

Creating Subgraphs in Semi-Random Hypergraph Games

2026-01-09

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The semi-random hypergraph process is a natural generalisation of the semi-random graph process, which can be thought of as a one player game. For fixed r < s, starting with an empty hypergraph on n vertices, in each round a set of r vertices U is presented to the player independently and uniformly at random. The player then selects a set of s-r vertices V and adds the hyperedge U boolean OR V to the suniform hypergraph. For a fixed (monotone) increasing graph property, the player's objective is to force the graph to satisfy this property with high probability in as few rounds as possible. We focus on the case where the player's objective is to construct a subgraph isomorphic to an arbitrary, fixed hypergraph H. In the case r = 1 the threshold for the number of rounds required was already known in terms of the degeneracy of H. In the case 2 <= r < s, we give upper and lower bounds on this threshold for general H, and find further improved upper bounds for cliques in particular. We identify cases where the upper and lower bounds match. We also demonstrate that the lower bounds are not always tight by finding exact thresholds for various paths and cycles.

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semi-random hypergraph process

subgraph creation

monotone increasing property

degeneracy

threshold analysis

Creating Subgraphs in Semi-Random Hypergraph Games

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