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The double Hall property and cycle covers in bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2024-05-24 v2

Abstract

In a graph GG, the 22-neighborhood of a vertex set XX consists of all vertices of GG having at least 22 neighbors in XX. We say that a bipartite graph G(A,B)G(A,B) satisfies the double Hall property if A2|A|\geq2, and every subset XAX \subseteq A of size at least 22 has a 22-neighborhood of size at least X|X|. Salia conjectured that any bipartite graph G(A,B)G(A,B) satisfying the double Hall property contains a cycle covering AA. Here, we prove the existence of a 22-factor covering AA in any bipartite graph G(A,B)G(A,B) satisfying the double Hall property. We also show Salia's conjecture for graphs with restricted degrees of vertices in BB. Additionally, we prove a lower bound on the number of edges in a graph satisfying the double Hall property, and the bound is sharp up to a constant factor.

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@article{arxiv.2310.02909,
  title  = {The double Hall property and cycle covers in bipartite graphs},
  author = {János Barát and Andrzej Grzesik and Attila Jung and Zoltán Lóránt Nagy and Dömötör Pálvölgyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.02909},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

minor corrections; to be published in Discrete Mathematics