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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 ii Paper 1 17J a Solution by
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A matching from to consists of disjoint edges saturating every vertex of . The criterion is Hall marriage theorem.
For sufficiency, induct on . If a nonempty proper is tight, , apply induction to and to the graph left after deleting them. If no proper set is tight, choose any edge , delete its endpoints, and Hall still holds because every nonempty proper subset formerly had at least one spare neighbour. Induction completes the matching. Necessity is immediate.
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