Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 111 2 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Use uniform expectations on the two nonempty parts, and equip their function spaces with the inner product . Let andSince 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 givesAveraging in uses the constant column degree and gives . For every operator is zero. Thus the second singular value isIf 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 givesHere 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 . HenceThis proves (i)(iii), with a constant independent of both part sizes. The case satisfies the same conclusion immediately.