%0 Journal Article %T Asymptotic normality of the size of the giant component in a random hypergraph %A Bela Bollobas %A Oliver Riordan %J Mathematics %D 2011 %I arXiv %R 10.1002/rsa.20456 %X Recently, we adapted random walk arguments based on work of Nachmias and Peres, Martin-L\"of, Karp and Aldous to give a simple proof of the asymptotic normality of the size of the giant component in the random graph $G(n,p)$ above the phase transition. Here we show that the same method applies to the analogous model of random $k$-uniform hypergraphs, establishing asymptotic normality throughout the (sparse) supercritical regime. Previously, asymptotic normality was known only towards the two ends of this regime. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3615v1