The hitting-time conjecture for Steiner systems in random hypergraph processes
The hitting-time conjecture for Steiner systems in random hypergraph processes
Let be the complete -uniform hypergraph on vertices, and expose its edges one by one in a uniformly random order to obtain the random hypergraph process. A facet is a -subset of vertices, and a facet is covered when it is contained in at least one exposed edge. Steiner-system hitting-time conjecture. As with fixed, asymptotically almost surely a Steiner system appears at the very moment that all facets are covered. This would identify the sole obstruction to a Steiner system in the process with the presence of uncovered facets, extending the corresponding graph-process phenomenon; the analogous assertion for perfect matchings in hypergraphs is noted as open.
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Michael Simkin, “( n , k , k - 1 )-Steiner Systems in Random Hypergraphs”, arXiv:1711.01975 (2017).
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