Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/probability-and-computing/2/e/solution

Consider any edge of the simple graph. One endpoint comes first in the permutation ; suppose it is . Then has a graph neighbour preceding it, namely , so . Therefore no edge has both endpoints in :
This argument uses only the order of the endpoints, with no random choice required.

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