On forbidding graphs as traces of hypergraphs

Abstract: We say that a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ contains a graph $H$ as a trace if there exists some set $S\subset V(\mathcal{H})$ such that $\mathcal{H}|_S={h\cap S: h\in E(\mathcal{H})}$ contains a subhypergraph isomorphic to $H$. We study the largest number of hyperedges in 3-uniform hypergraphs avoiding some graph $F$ as trace. In particular, we improve a bound given by Luo and Spiro in the case $F=C_4$, and obtain exact bounds for large $n$ when $F$ is a book graph.