Mathematics > Combinatorics
[Submitted on 3 May 2024]
Title:Hypertree shrinking avoiding low degree vertices
View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:The shrinking operation converts a hypergraph into a graph by choosing, from each hyperedge, two endvertices of a corresponding graph edge. A hypertree is a hypergraph which can be shrunk to a tree on the same vertex set. Klimošová and Thomassé [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 156 (2022), 250--293] proved (as a tool to obtain their main result on edge-decompositions of graphs into paths of equal length) that any rank $3$ hypertree $T$ can be shrunk to a tree where the degree of each vertex is at least $1/100$ times its degree in $T$. We prove a stronger and a more general bound, replacing the constant $1/100$ with $1/2k$ when the rank is $k$. In place of entropy compression (used by Klimošová and Thomassé), we use a hypergraph orientation lemma combined with a characterisation of edge-coloured graphs admitting rainbow spanning trees.
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