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The paper proves that a condensation phase transition occurs in random hypergraph 2-colouring, a natural random constraint satisfaction problem.
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“In this paper we prove for the first time that a condensation transition exists in a natural random CSP, namely in random hypergraph 2-coloring.”
From Coja‐Oghlan and Zdeborová (2012), arXiv 1107.2341. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 18 Oct 2026.
condensation transition:
A phase transition, shortly before solutions cease to exist, at which the solutions become concentrated in a few clusters, changing the combinatorial nature of the problem.
random CSP:
A random constraint satisfaction problem: a problem where randomly generated constraints must all be satisfied by an assignment of values to variables.
random hypergraph 2-colouring:
The problem of colouring the vertices of a randomly generated hypergraph with two colours so that no edge, a group of several vertices, is all one colour.
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The paper
The condensation transition in random hypergraph 2-coloring
Amin Coja‐Oghlan and Lenka Zdeborová
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) · published 2012 · arXiv 1107.2341
The paper proves a condensation transition exists in random hypergraph 2-colouring, finds the second moment method fails before it, and slightly improves bounds on the colourability threshold.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 18 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
Statistical physicists had predicted, using non-rigorous arguments, that condensation happens shortly before solutions stop existing in many random constraint problems. It was thought to explain why standard counting methods give upper and lower bounds that do not match. This paper turns that prediction into a rigorous result for one natural problem, which gives a firmer base for the physics-based picture. The authors expect their techniques to extend to related problems such as random k-SAT and random graph k-colouring.
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What the authors did
The authors give a mathematical proof for random hypergraph 2-colouring, using first and second moment methods together with analysis of the structure of solutions. The abstract gives no further detail on the method.
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What they found
A condensation transition is proved to exist in random hypergraph 2-colouring, the first such proof for a natural random constraint satisfaction problem.
The second moment method breaks down strictly before the condensation transition.
The proof also gives slightly improved bounds on the threshold for random hypergraph 2-colourability.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"In this paper we prove for the first time that a condensation transition exists in a natural random CSP, namely in random hypergraph 2-coloring."
(Coja‐Oghlan et al., ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2012)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The paper proves that a condensation phase transition occurs in random hypergraph 2-colouring, a natural random constraint satisfaction problem.
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Refuted if a rigorous proof shows that no condensation transition occurs in random hypergraph 2‑colouring for any edge density below the known upper bound on the colourability threshold.
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