Paper 2, Section II, F
Let be a bipartite graph with vertex classes and . What does it mean to say that contains a matching from to ?
State and prove Hall's Marriage Theorem, giving a necessary and sufficient condition for to contain a matching from to .
Now assume that does contain a matching (from to ). For a subset , denotes the set of vertices adjacent to some vertex in .
(i) Suppose for every with . Show that every edge of is contained in a matching.
(ii) Suppose that every edge of is contained in a matching and that is connected. Show that for every with .
(iii) For each , give an example of with such that every edge is contained in a matching but for some with .
(iv) Suppose that every edge of is contained in a matching. Must every pair of independent edges in be contained in a matching? Give a proof or counterexample as appropriate.
[No form of Menger's Theorem or of the Max-Flow-Min-Cut Theorem may be assumed without proof.]