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A Simple Condition for the Existence of Transversals

Discrete Mathematics 2016-02-17 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Hall's Theorem is a basic result in Combinatorics which states that the obvious necesssary condition for a finite family of sets to have a transversal is also sufficient. We present a sufficient (but not necessary) condition on the sizes of the sets in the family and the sizes of their intersections so that a transversal exists. Using this, we prove that in a bipartite graph GG (bipartition {A,B}\{A, B\}), without 4-cycles, if deg(v)2eA\deg(v) \geq \sqrt{2e|A|} for all vAv \in A, then GG has a matching of size A|A|.

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@article{arxiv.1602.05181,
  title  = {A Simple Condition for the Existence of Transversals},
  author = {Arindam Biswas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05181},
  year   = {2016}
}