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Think of a vertex of this hypergraph as an edge of the complete graph on $[N]$. A hyperedge is the edge set of one $t$-vertex clique. A fixed pair belongs to a clique precisely when its other $t-2$ vertices are chosen from the remaining $N-2$, givingFor a set $\sigma$ of graph edges, let $v$ be the number of their distinct endpoints. If $v>t$, no $t$-clique contains them and the codegree is zero. Otherwise its other $t-v$ vertices may be chosen freely, soFor $2\le k=|\sigma |\le \left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{t}{2}\right)$, distinct edges have at least three endpoints, and all $k$ edges lie among the $\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{v}{2}\right)$ possible pairs. Thus $3\le v\le t$ and $k\le \left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{v}{2}\right)$. In particular,This also identifies why the relevant exponent is $2/(t+1)$.

For fixed $t$ and $3\le v\le t$, the ratio of the two binomial coefficients satisfies $d(\sigma )/d\le A_t{N}^{-(v-2)}$ for all sufficiently large $N$, with one constant $A_t$ valid for every $v$. For $\tau =c^{\prime }{N}^{-2/(t+1)}$,For any fixed $c>0$, choose $c^{\prime }\ge 1$ so large that the last bound is at most $c$ for every $2\le k\le \left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{t}{2}\right)$. Zero codegrees satisfy the bound automatically. The asserted small-codegree condition therefore holds uniformly. Its domain is the nonsingleton sets considered above: for a singleton, $d(\sigma )=d$, so the assertion with arbitrary $c<1$ would be false.

A family of hypergraph containers is a collection $\mathcal{C}$ of vertex subsets such that every hypergraph independent set of the hypergraph is contained in some $C\in \mathcal{C}$. Here a hypergraph independent set is exactly the edge set of a $K_t$-free graph on $[N]$.

We use the following edge-sparse form of the hypergraph container theorem. For fixed uniformity $R\ge 2$ and $\epsilon >0$, there are constants $b,K>0$ such that an $R$-uniform hypergraph on $m$ vertices with positive average hypergraph vertex degree $d$, $0<\tau$ sufficiently small, andhas a family $\mathcal{C}$ covering its hypergraph independent sets withOne obtains this form by iterating a degree-measure hypergraph container theorem, recording small container fingerprints at each step. To ensure the requested strict edge inequality, apply it with $\epsilon /2$.

For our clique hypergraph, $m=\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{N}{2}\right)$, $R=\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{t}{2}\right)$ and $e(G)=\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{N}{t}\right)$. The established codegree bound permits this choice of $\tau$, andEvery container, viewed as an ordinary graph, has at most $\epsilon \left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{N}{t}\right)$ copies of $K_t$.

We also use clique supersaturation: for each fixed $\gamma >0$, graphs with at least $(1-1/(t-1)+\gamma )\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{N}{2}\right)$ edges have at least $b_{\gamma }{N}^t$ copies of $K_t$, for some $b_{\gamma }>0$ and all sufficiently large $N$. For clarity, this follows already from the Erdős-Stone theorem: choose a fixed sample size $q$ with $\mathrm{ex}(q,K_t)\le (1-1/(t-1)+\gamma /2)\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{q}{2}\right)$. A uniformly sampled $q$-set has expected value of the edge count above this bound by at least $(\gamma /2)\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{q}{2}\right)$, forcing a positive proportion of samples to contain a clique. Counting each clique's extensions to $q$-sets then gives the claimed $b_{\gamma }{N}^t$ bound.

Choose $\epsilon$ smaller than the corresponding supersaturation constant after converting $\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{N}{t}\right)$ to $N^t$. Each container has fewer than $(1-1/(t-1)+\gamma )\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{N}{2}\right)$ ordinary edges. Every $K_t$-free graph is a subgraph of one of these containers, so their number is at mostConversely, every subgraph of a balanced Turan graph with $t-1$ parts is $K_t$-free, giving at least $2^{(1-1/(t-1))\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{N}{2}\right)-O(N)}$ possibilities. Letting $\gamma$ be arbitrarily small proves the enumeration formula: