A note on the extremal number of Berge-$C_4$

Abstract

We improve the known upper bound for the extremal number of Berge-$C_4$-free $3$-uniform hypergraphs. More precisely, we prove that every $n$-vertex $3$-uniform hypergraph with no Berge cycle of length four has at most \[ \frac{n^{3/2}}{2+\sqrt2}+O(n) \] hyperedges. This improves the previous best-known leading constant $1/\sqrt{10}$ to $1/(2+\sqrt2)$.