Higher-uniformity extremal construction conjecture for tight cycles

Fix a uniformity r2r\geq 2. Let CL(r)C_L^{(r)} be the rr-uniform tight cycle of length LL, and call an rr-graph CL(r)C_L^{(r)}-hom-free when it contains no homomorphic copy of this cycle. A complete oddly bipartite rr-graph is the construction in which an edge is present precisely when it meets the relevant bipartition in an odd number of vertices.

Higher-uniformity extremal construction conjecture. For all sufficiently long LL relatively prime to rr, the extremal CL(r)C_L^{(r)}-hom-free constructions on sufficiently large numbers of vertices are the complete oddly bipartite rr-graph when rr is even, and the iterated blowup described in the source when rr is odd.

This conjecture extends the proposed extremal constructions from uniformities 55 and 66 to arbitrary uniformity. It remains open, and the source notes that higher-uniformity analogues of the available structural arguments would require new ideas.

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Maya Sankar, “The Turán Density of 4-Uniform Tight Cycles”, arXiv:2411.01782 (2026).

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