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arxiv: 1602.05181 · v1 · pith:7AYV4SDMnew · submitted 2016-02-16 · 💻 cs.DM · math.CO

A Simple Condition for the Existence of Transversals

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Hall's Theorem is a basic result in Combinatorics which states that the obvious necesssary condition for a finite family of sets to have a transversal is also sufficient. We present a sufficient (but not necessary) condition on the sizes of the sets in the family and the sizes of their intersections so that a transversal exists. Using this, we prove that in a bipartite graph $G$ (bipartition $\{A, B\}$), without 4-cycles, if $\deg(v) \geq \sqrt{2e|A|}$ for all $v \in A$, then $G$ has a matching of size $|A|$.

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