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Bipartite graphs with the double Hall property

Combinatorics 2025-08-26 v2

Abstract

The super-neighborhood of a vertex set AA in a graph GG, denoted by Λ2(A)\Lambda^2(A), is the set of vertices adjacent to at least two vertices in AA. We say that a bipartite graph G=(X,Y)G=(X, Y) with X2|X| \geq 2 satisfies the double Hall property (with respect to XX) if Λ2(A)A|\Lambda^2(A)| \geq |A| for any subset AXA \subseteq X with A2|A| \geq 2. Kostochka et al. first conjectured that if a bipartite graph G=(X,Y)G=(X, Y) satisfies a slightly weaker version of the double Hall property, then GG contains a cycle that covers all vertices of XX. They verified their conjecture for X6|X| \leq 6. In this paper, we extend their result to X=7|X| = 7. Later, Salia conjectured that every bipartite graph satisfying the double Hall property has a cycle covering all vertices of XX. We show that Salia's conjecture is almost equivalent to a much weaker conjecture requiring vertices in YY to have high degrees. By extending a result of Bar\'at et al., we also show that Salia's conjecture holds for some graphs where the vertices of YY have degree either 22 or very high. Finally, we establish a lower bound for the maximum degree of graphs satisfying the double Hall property and present deterministic and probabilistic constructions of such graphs that approach this bound.

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@article{arxiv.2502.10903,
  title  = {Bipartite graphs with the double Hall property},
  author = {Guantao Chen and Mikhail Lavrov and Yuying Ma and Yimo Su and Jennifer Vandenbussche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10903},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures

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