2.II.17F

Graph Theory
Part II, 2006

Let GG be a bipartite graph with vertex classes XX and YY. State Hall's necessary condition for GG to have a matching from XX to YY, and prove that it is sufficient.

Deduce a necessary and sufficient condition for GG to have Xd|X|-d independent edges, where dd is a natural number.

Show that the maximum size of a set of independent edges in GG is equal to the minimum size of a subset SV(G)S \subset V(G) such that every edge of GG has an end vertex in SS.