The Brown-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture in dense triple systems

Abstract

The famous Brown-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture from 1973 states, in an equivalent form, that for any fixed $\delta>0$ and integer $k\geq 3$ every sufficiently large linear $3$-uniform hypergraph of size $\delta n^2$ contains some $k$ edges spanning at most $k+3$ vertices. We prove it to hold for $\delta>4/5$, establishing the first bound of this kind.