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Past exam of the graph Theory and Probabilistic Combinatorics course of the University of Oxford 2009 A 1 b Solution by
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Write the bipartition as . Counting edges by their left and right ends gives , so the parts have equal size. Put . If some violated Hall's marriage theorem in , let , so .
There are edges of incident with , of which at most can end in . Thus at least end in . All those edges must have been deleted, by the definition of . This contradicts . Hence has a matching covering , and equal part sizes make it a perfect matching avoiding every edge of .
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