# Hamilton cycles in random hypergraphs

## Speaker:

Catherine Greenhill

## Affiliation:

University of New South Wales

## Date:

Tue, 04/04/2017 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

## Venue:

RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSW

## Abstract:

The small subgraph conditioning method was introduced by Robinson and Wormald (1992, 1994) to prove that a random $r$-regular graph contains a Hamilton cycle with probability which tends to 1 as the number of vertices tends to infinity, so long as the degree $r$ is at least 3.  The method involves a careful analysis of variance and has been applied to prove many other structural properties of random regular graphs.  Much less work has been done in the hypergraph setting.

I will discuss recently-completed work on the analysis of the number of Hamilton cycles in random regular uniform hypergraphs.  In particular, we find a constant degree threshold which is sufficient for the existence of a Hamilton cycle with probability which tends to 1, as conjectured by Dudek, Frieze, Rucinski and Sileikis in 2015.

This is joint work with Daniel Altman, Mikhail Isaev and Reshma Ramadurai.