2025/07/01 by Bodnár, Levente, Deng, Jinghua, Hou, Jianfeng +2
#Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.00812
The 3-uniform tight ℓ-cycle minus one edge Cℓ3- is the 3-graph on ℓ vertices consisting of ℓ-1 consecutive triples in the cyclic order. We show that for every integer ℓ ≥ 5 satisfying ℓ\not≡ 0\pmod3, every Cℓ3--free 3-graph whose ℓ2-norm, that is, the sum of codegree squares, is close to the maximum must be structurally close to the iterative blowup of a single triple. This confirms a conjecture of Balogh--Clemen--Lidický~[Surveys in combinatorics 2022, 21-63] in a stronger form.