Spanning structures and universality in sparse hypergraphs

TL;DR: It is shown that the random graph G(n, p) for appropriate p and explicit constructions of universal graphs due to Alon, Capalbo, Kohayakawa, Rödl, Ruciński and Szemerédi yield constructions that are sparser than the random hypergraph H(r)(n,p) with p≫(lnn/n)1/Δ © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Abstract: In this paper the problem of finding various spanning structures in random hypergraphs is studied. We notice that a general result of Riordan [Combin Probab Comput 9 (2000), 125–148] can be adapted from random graphs to random r-uniform hypergraphs and provide sufficient conditions when a random r-uniform hypergraph H(r)(n,p) contains a given spanning structure a.a.s. We also discuss several spanning structures such as cube-hypergraphs, lattices, spheres, and Hamilton cycles in hypergraphs. Moreover, we study universality, i.e. when does an r-uniform hypergraph contain any hypergraph on n vertices and with maximum vertex degree bounded by Δ? For H(r)(n,p) it is shown that this holds for p≫(lnn/n)1/Δ a.a.s. by combining approaches taken by Dellamonica, Kohayakawa, Rodl and Rucinski [Random Struct Algorithms 46 (2015), 274–299] and of Ferber, Nenadov and Peter [Random Struct Algorithms 48 (2016), 546–564] and of Kim and Lee [SIAM J Discrete Math 28 (2014), 1467–1478]. Furthermore it is shown that the random graph G(n, p) for appropriate p and explicit constructions of universal graphs due to Alon, Capalbo, Kohayakawa, Rodl, Rucinski and Szemeredi [Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci., Vol. 2129, Springer, Berlin, 2001, pp. 170–180] and Alon and Capalbo [Random Struct Algorithms 31 (2007), 123–133; Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2008, pp. 373–378] yield constructions of universal hypergraphs that are sparser than the random hypergraph H(r)(n,p) with p≫(lnn/n)1/Δ © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2016