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- From: west@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Douglas West)
- Subject: Re: Graph Problem
- References: <1992Sep7.084511.3401@alf.uib.no>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:59:18 GMT
- Keywords: Combinatorial problem, bipartite graphs.
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- The original poster asked for bounds on the number of complete matchings in a
- bipartite graph with partite sets V,U, where |V|<=|U| and each vertex in V has
- degree l<=|V|, and where the graph satisfies Philip Hall's marriage condition
- and therefore has a complete matching (saturating |V|, that is).
-
- The best possible upper bound is l^l.
- The best possible lower bound is l!, which is a special case
- of a 1948 theorem of Marshall Hall.
-
- In general, if d is the minimum degree of vertices in V, M. Hall's theorem
- states that there are at least d(d-1)...(d-k+1) matchings,
- where k is the minimum of d and |V|. This is proved by induction on |V|.
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