Rational exponent conjecture for degenerate hypergraph Turán numbers

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Let r3r\ge 3, and let F\mathcal{F} be a degenerate finite family of rr-graphs satisfying

exex(n,F)=Ω(n1+α)ex{ex}(n,\mathcal{F})=\Omega(n^{1+\alpha})

for some constant α>r2\alpha>r-2. Then there exist constants β>0\beta>0, c>0c>0, and C>0C>0 such that, for all sufficiently large nn,

cexex(n,F)n1+βC.c\le \frac{ex{ex}(n,\mathcal{F})}{n^{1+\beta}}\le C.

This proposed hypergraph analogue of the Erdős–Simonovits rational exponent conjecture would imply the claimed exponent tightness for the subcritical range p<1/(r1α)p<1/(r-1-\alpha). Its status is open; the paper presents it as a bold conjecture rather than proving it.

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Jun Gao, Xizhi Liu, Jie Ma and Oleg Pikhurko, “Phase transition of degenerate Turán problems in p-norms”, arXiv:2411.15579 (2025).

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