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Hall's theorem revisited
Author(s):
Zhi-Wei
Sun
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
129
(2001),
3129-3131.
MSC (2000):
Primary 05A05;
Secondary 05C20
Posted:
May 6, 2001
MathSciNet review:
1840120
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Abstract:
Let be sets. By a simple graph-theoretic argument we show that any set of distinct representatives of can be extended to a set of distinct representatives of in more than ways. This yields a natural induction proof of the well-known theorem of P. Hall.
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- M. Aigner, Combinatorial Theory, Springer, New York, 1979. MR 80h:05002
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- Hui-Qin Cao and Zhi-Wei Sun, On sums of distinct representatives, Acta Arith. 87 (1998), 159-169. MR 99k:11021
- [H]
- M. Hall, Distinct representatives of subsets, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (1948), 922-926. MR 10:238g
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- P. Hall, On representatives of subsets, J. London Math. Soc. 10 (1935), 26-30.
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- P. R. Halmos and H. E. Vaughan, The marriage problem, Amer. J. Math. 72 (1950), 214-215. MR 11:423h
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Additional Information:
Zhi-Wei
Sun
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
Email:
zwsun@nju.edu.cn
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06215-3
PII:
S 0002-9939(01)06215-3
Received by editor(s):
March 31, 2000
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
October 30, 2000
Posted:
May 6, 2001
Additional Notes:
This research was supported by the Teaching and Research Award Fund for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of MOE, and the National Natural Science Foundation of P. R. China.
Communicated by:
John R. Stembridge
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2001,
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