{ "id": "1606.05616", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-06-17T18:21:24.000Z", "updated": "2016-06-17T18:21:24.000Z", "title": "The minimum vertex degree for an almost-spanning tight cycle in a $3$-uniform hypergraph", "authors": [ "Oliver Cooley", "Richard Mycroft" ], "comment": "10 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1411.4957", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We prove that any $3$-uniform hypergraph whose minimum vertex degree is at least $\\left(\\frac{5}{9} + o(1) \\right)\\binom{n}{2}$ admits an almost-spanning tight cycle, that is, a tight cycle leaving $o(n)$ vertices uncovered. The bound on the vertex degree is asymptotically best possible. Our proof uses the hypergraph regularity method, and in particular a recent version of the hypergraph regularity lemma proved by Allen, B\\\"ottcher, Cooley and Mycroft.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-06-17T18:21:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "minimum vertex degree", "almost-spanning tight cycle", "uniform hypergraph", "hypergraph regularity method", "hypergraph regularity lemma" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }