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JOURNAL OF COMBINATORIAL THEORY SERIES A, vol.118, no.8, pp.2246-2256, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
One of the central problems of extremal hypergraph theory is the description of unavoidable subhypergraphs, in other words, the Turan problem. Let a = (a(1), ... , a(p)) be a sequence of positive integers, k = a(1) + ... + a(p). An a-partition of a k-set F is a partition in the form F = A(1) boolean OR ... boolean OR A(p) with vertical bar A(i)vertical bar = a(i) for 1 <= i <= p. An a-cluster A with host F(0) is a family of k-sets {F(0), ... , F(p)} such that for some a-partition of F(0), F(0) boolean AND F(i) = F(0) \ A(i) for 1 <= i <= p and the sets F(1) \ F(0) are pairwise disjoint. The family A has 2k vertices and it is unique up to isomorphisms. With an intensive use of the delta-system method we prove that for k > p and sufficiently large n, if F is a k-uniform family on n vertices with vertical bar F vertical bar exceeding the Erdos-Ko-Rado bound ((n-1)(k-1)), then,F contains an a-cluster. The only extremal family consists of all the k-subsets containing a given element. Published by Elsevier Inc.