Hypergraph Extensions of Spectral Tur\'an Theorem

TL;DR

This paper extends the spectral Turán theorem to hypergraphs, identifying the hypergraph with the maximum $p$-spectral radius among those avoiding certain subhypergraphs, thereby unifying Turán-type extremal results with spectral methods.

Contribution

It introduces a $p$-spectral version of the hypergraph Turán theorem, characterizing extremal hypergraphs with maximum $p$-spectral radius for large $n$, generalizing previous Turán results.

Findings

Complete $k$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraphs maximize $p$-spectral radius among $H_{k+1}^{(r)}$-free hypergraphs.

Established $p$-spectral stability theorems for hypergraph Turán problems.

Unified hypergraph Turán and spectral Turán theorems via $p$-spectral radius.

Abstract

The spectral Tur\'an theorem states that the $k$-partite Tur\'an graph is the unique graph attaining the maximum adjacency spectral radius among all graphs of order $n$ containing no the complete graph $K_{k+1}$ as a subgraph. This result is known to be stronger than the classical Tur\'an theorem. In this paper, we consider hypergraph extensions of spectral Tur\'an theorem. For $k\geq r\geq 2$, let $H_{k+1}^{(r)}$ be the $r$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $K_{k+1}$ by enlarging each edge with a new set of $(r-2)$ vertices. Let $F_{k+1}^{(r)}$ be the $r$-uniform hypergraph with edges: $\{1,2,\ldots,r\} =: [r]$ and $E_{ij} \cup\{i,j\}$ over all pairs $\{i,j\}\in \binom{[k+1]}{2}\setminus\binom{[r]}{2}$, where $E_{ij}$ are pairwise disjoint $(r-2)$-sets disjoint from $[k+1]$. Generalizing the Tur\'an theorem to hypergraphs, Pikhurko [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 103 (2013) 220--225] and Mubayi and Pikhurko [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 97 (2007) 669--678] respectively determined the exact Tur\'an number of $H_{k+1}^{(r)}$ and $F_{k+1}^{(r)}$, and characterized the corresponding extremal hypergraphs. Our main results show that $T_r(n,k)$, the complete $k$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices where no two parts differ by more than one in size, is the unique hypergraph having the maximum $p$-spectral radius among all $n$-vertex $H_{k+1}^{(r)}$-free (resp. $F_{k+1}^{(r)}$-free) $r$-uniform hypergraphs for sufficiently large $n$. These findings are obtained by establishing $p$-spectral version of the stability theorems. Our results offer $p$-spectral analogues of the results by Mubayi and Pikhurko, and connect both hypergraph Tur\'an theorem and hypergraph spectral Tur\'an theorem in a unified form via the $p$-spectral radius.