A 3-uniform hypergraph on a finite vertex type $V$: a finite family of 3-element subsets of $V$.
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The number of vertices of a 3-uniform hypergraph, equal to the cardinality of $V$.
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The degree of a vertex $v$ in a 3-uniform hypergraph $H$: the number of edges of $H$ that contain $v$.
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The average vertex degree of a 3-uniform hypergraph, $\bar d(H) = 3|E(H)|/|V|$.
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The maximum vertex degree $\Delta_1(H)$ of a 3-uniform hypergraph.
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The pair codegree $d_H(u,v)$: the number of edges of $H$ containing both $u$ and $v$.
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The maximum pair codegree $\Delta_2(H) = \max_{u \neq v} d_H(u, v)$.
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A set $I \subseteq V$ is independent in a 3-uniform hypergraph $H$ if no edge of $H$ is contained in $I$.
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$\sum_{i=0}^{k} \binom{n}{i}$, an upper bound for the number of subsets of an $n$-element set of size at most $k$.
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Theorem 11.3.1 (Container theorem for 3-uniform hypergraphs). For every $c > 0$ there exists $\delta > 0$ such that for every 3-uniform hypergraph $H$ with average degree $d \geq \delta^{-1}$, maximum vertex degree $\Delta_1 \leq c d$ and maximum pair codegree $\Delta_2 \leq c \sqrt{d}$, there is a family $\mathcal{C}$ of containers with
- $|\mathcal{C}| \leq \sum_{i \leq n/\sqrt{d}} \binom{n}{i}$;
- every independent set $I$ of $H$ is contained in some $S \in \mathcal{C}$;
- every container satisfies $|S| \leq (1 - \delta) n$.