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Part II, 2019
(a) What does it mean to say that a graph is bipartite?
(b) Show that is bipartite if and only if it contains no cycles of odd length.
(c) Show that if is bipartite then
as .
[You may use without proof the Erdós-Stone theorem provided it is stated precisely.]
(d) Let be a graph of order with edges. Let be a random subset of containing each vertex of independently with probability . Let be the number of edges with precisely one vertex in . Find, with justification, , and deduce that contains a bipartite subgraph with at least edges.
By using another method of choosing a random subset of , or otherwise, show that if is even then contains a bipartite subgraph with at least edges.