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Past exam of the graph theory course of the University of Oxford 2011 1 b iii Solution by
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Hall's marriage theorem says that a bipartite graph with parts has a matching saturating if and only ifNecessity follows because the matched neighbours of vertices of are distinct and belong to .
For sufficiency, assume these inequalities. Let be any vertex cover, with and . Every neighbour of must belong to , since otherwise its edge from is uncovered. Therefore , and . The whole part is itself a vertex cover of size . Part (ii) now gives a matching of size exactly , so it saturates .
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