Abstract: | A matching in a 3-uniform hypergraph is a set of pairwise disjoint edges. We use to denote the 3-uniform hypergraph whose vertex set can be partitioned into two vertex classes and of size and , respectively, and whose edge set consists of all the triples containing at least two vertices of . Let be a 3-uniform hypergraph of order with no isolated vertex and for any two adjacent vertices . In this paper, we show that contains a matching of size if and only if is not a subgraph of . This result improves our previous one in Zhang and Lu (2018). |