arXiv:2611.05622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The chromatic index $\chi'(H)$ of a hypergraph $H$ is the smallest number of colors needed to color its edges so that no two adjacent edges share the same color. The chromatic index is trivially bounded below by the maximum degree $\Delta(H)$, and when $\chi'(H)= \Delta(H)$, we say that $H$ is Class 1. It is well known that almost every 2-graph is Class 1, and we extend this result to 3-graphs. We show for $n^{-2/3-1/200}\leq p \leq 0.99$ that the $3$-uniform binomial random hypergraph $H\sim H_{n,p}^{(3)}$ is Class 1 with high probability. We also show that this result doesn't hold for uniformities above $3$. For a broad range of $p$, when $k \geq 4$ and $k \nmid n$, the hypergraph $H \sim H_{n,p}^{(k)}$ is with high probability not Class 1.
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