Use uniform expectations on the two nonempty parts, and equip their function spaces with the inner product . Let and
Since the bipartite graph is a biregular graph, both row and column averages of vanish. The normalized adjacency operator of a bipartite graph therefore splits into the map between constant functions, of singular value , and between their orthogonal complements.
There is no singular value larger than . Indeed, for , the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives
Averaging in uses the constant column degree and gives . For every operator is zero. Thus the second singular value is
If one part has a single vertex, missing singular values are interpreted as zero; the biregular graph then has .
The discrepancy in (i) is exactly . Its supremum over is the cut norm . To pass from this bound to arbitrary bounded real-valued functions, use the positive and negative parts and the identity for . Applying this separately to both factors gives
Here is a bound on , unrelated to any cardinality.
If , take real unit left singular vector and right singular vector with and . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and imply . Hence
This proves (i)(iii), with a constant independent of both part sizes. The case satisfies the same conclusion immediately.