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Past exam of the probability, statistics and options I course of the University of Oxford 2009 R 1 v Solution by
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If the printed means an ordinary subgraph, the claim is false. Any two distinct hypercube vertices have exactly two common neighbors when their Hamming distance is two, and no common neighbors otherwise. Three common neighbors, required by any pair of vertices on one side of , are therefore impossible.
The valid intended statement is a graph subdivision of . An explicit one in has branch sets and . Six of the nine branch-to-branch connections are direct edges: joins all three vertices of , joins , and joins . The other three paths areEvery step changes one bit and the six internal vertices are distinct and are not branch vertices. Thus these paths and direct edges form the required topological subgraph. For , append zeros to every label, embedding the construction in .
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