Covering the Edges of a Random Hypergraph by Cliques

Abstract

Abstract We determine the order of magnitude of the minimum clique cover of the edges of a binomial, r-uniform, random hypergraph G(r)(n, p), p fixed. In doing so, we combine the ideas from the proofs of the graph case (r = 2) in Frieze and Reed [Covering the edges of a random graph by cliques, Combinatorica 15 (1995) 489–497] and Guo, Patten, Warnke [Prague dimension of random graphs, manuscript submitted for publication].