On Hamiltonian cycles in hypergraphs with dense link graphs

We show that every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices whose minimum $(k-2)$-degree is at least $(5/9+o(1))n^2/2$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle. A construction due to Han and Zhao shows that this minimum degree condition is optimal. The same result was proved independently by Lang and Sahueza-Matamala.Comment: Dedicated to Endre Szemer\'edi on the occasion of his 80th birthda

rr-cross tt-intersecting families via necessary intersection points

Given integers $r\geq 2$ and $n,t\geq 1$ we call families $\mathcal{F}_1,\dots,\mathcal{F}_r\subseteq\mathscr{P}([n])$ $r$-cross $t$-intersecting if for all $F_i\in\mathcal{F}_i$, $i\in[r]$, we have $\vert\bigcap_{i\in[r]}F_i\vert\geq t$. We obtain a strong generalisation of the classic Hilton-Milner theorem on cross intersecting families. In particular, we determine the maximum of $\sum_{j\in [r]}\vert\mathcal{F}_j\vert$ for $r$-cross $t$-intersecting families in the cases when these are $k$-uniform families or arbitrary subfamilies of $\mathscr{P}([n])$. Only some special cases of these results had been proved before. We obtain the aforementioned theorems as instances of a more general result that considers measures of $r$-cross $t$-intersecting families. This also provides the maximum of $\sum_{j\in [r]}\vert\mathcal{F}_j\vert$ for families of possibly mixed uniformities $k_1,\ldots,k_r$.Comment: 13 page

On extremal problems concerning the traces of sets

Given two non-negative integers $n$ and $s$, define $m(n,s)$ to be the maximal number such that in every hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ on $n$ vertices and with at most $m(n,s)$ edges there is a vertex $x$ such that $|\mathcal{H}_x|\geq | E(\mathcal{H})| -s$, where $\mathcal{H}_x=\{H\setminus\{x\}:H\in E(\mathcal{H})\}$. This problem has been posed by F\"uredi and Pach and by Frankl and Tokushige. While the first results were only for specific small values of $s$, Frankl determined $m(n,2^{d-1}-1)$ for all $d\in\mathbb{N}$ with $d\mid n$. Subsequently, the goal became to determine $m(n,2^{d-1}-c)$ for larger $c$. Frankl and Watanabe determined $m(n,2^{d-1}-c)$ for $c\in\{0,2\}$. Other general results were not known so far. Our main result sheds light on what happens further away from powers of two: We prove that $m(n,2^{d-1}-c)=\frac{n}{d}(2^d-c)$ for $d\geq 4c$ and $d\mid n$ and give an example showing that this equality does not hold for $c=d$. The other line of research on this problem is to determine $m(n,s)$ for small values of $s$. In this line, our second result determines $m(n,2^{d-1}-c)$ for $c\in\{3,4\}$. This solves more instances of the problem for small $s$ and in particular solves a conjecture by Frankl and Watanabe.Comment: 16 page