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 (bipartition ), without 4-cycles, if for all , then has a matching of size .
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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}
}