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The paper shows that Ackermann-type bounds on the size of regular partitions are unavoidable for k-uniform hypergraphs, for every k ≥ 2, as Tao predicted.
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What the paper says, word for word
“We show that such Ackermann-type bounds are unavoidable for every $k \ge 2$, thus confirming a prediction of Tao.”
From Moshkovitz and Shapira (2019), arXiv 1907.07639. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 25 Oct 2026.
k-uniform hypergraph:
A structure made of points and edges, where every edge joins exactly k points; for k = 2 this is an ordinary graph.
regular partition:
A division of the vertices into parts so that the edges between the parts look random-like in a precise sense.
Ackermann function:
A function that grows extremely fast, much faster than towers of exponentials, with the k-th version growing faster as k increases.
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The paper
A Tight Bound for Hyperaph Regularity
Guy Moshkovitz and Asaf Shapira
Geometric and Functional Analysis · published 2019 · arXiv 1907.07639
The paper proves that the hypergraph regularity lemma needs regular partitions whose order grows like the k-th Ackermann function, so existing proofs cannot be improved in this respect.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 25 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The hypergraph regularity lemma splits a large hypergraph into a number of pieces that behave in a random-like way. Known proofs give a number of pieces that grows extremely fast, following the k-th Ackermann function. The claim is that this growth is not a weakness of the proofs but is necessary, so no proof could give a much smaller partition. If it holds, it settles how large such partitions must be and confirms what Tao had predicted.
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What the authors did
The authors give a mathematical proof of a lower bound for hypergraph regularity. It covers k-uniform hypergraphs for every k ≥ 2 and extends Gowers' earlier lower bound for graphs.
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What they found
All known proofs of the hypergraph regularity lemma give regular partitions whose order is given by the k-th Ackermann function.
Ackermann-type bounds are unavoidable for every k ≥ 2, confirming a prediction of Tao.
Before this work, the only result of this type was Gowers' lower bound for graph regularity.
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"We show that such Ackermann-type bounds are unavoidable for every $k \ge 2$, thus confirming a prediction of Tao."
(Moshkovitz et al., Geometric and Functional Analysis, 2019)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The paper shows that Ackermann-type bounds on the size of regular partitions are unavoidable for k-uniform hypergraphs, for every k ≥ 2, as Tao predicted.
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Refuted if a proof of the hypergraph regularity lemma for some k≥2 is found in which the required partition order can be bounded by a function that grows strictly slower than the k‑th Ackermann function.
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