property testing in hypergraphs and the removal lemma
Property testers are efficient, randomized algorithms which recognize if an input graph (or other combinatorial structure) satisfies a given property or if it is "far" from exhibiting it.Generalizing several earlier results, Alon and Shapira showed thathereditary graph properties are testable (with one-sided error). In this paper we prove the analogous result for hypergraphs.This result is an immediate consequence of a (hyper)graph theoretic statement, which is an extension of the so-called removal lemma. The proof of this generalization relies on the regularity method for hypergraphs.
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