The flights map of air company $K_{r,r}$ presents several cities. Some cities are connected by a direct (two way) flight, the total number of flights is m. One must choose two non-intersecting groups of r cities each so that every city of the first group is connected by a flight with every city of the second group. Prove that number of possible choices does not exceed $2*m^r$ .
Problem
Source: Tuymaada 2016
Tags: combinatorics, graph theory
30.06.2017 18:20
Nobody ?
30.06.2017 20:08
What does $K_{r,r}$ stand for?
30.06.2017 20:11
It is a complete bipartile graph with $r$ points in each part.
30.06.2017 20:44
In fact $m=2r^2$. The total number of choices is $2^r* 2^r$ because each set belong to a part in the bipartite graph and that expression is less than $2*r^r*r^r$ so qed.
02.07.2017 16:19
Thanks a lot.
05.07.2017 11:58
Isn't $m=2\cdot \binom{r}{2}=r(r-1)$ ? Please let me know if I'm wrong @below, thanks.
05.07.2017 17:58
We have $r$ points in each part . Let's note group A and group B these two parts.We have a complete bipartite graph so any two vertices in different group are connected by an edge . The total number of flight is the total number of edges in graph . Why $m=2r^2$? Let's note the vertices in group A $a_1, a_2 ... a_r$ and vertices in group B $b_1,b_2, ... , b_r $. So $a_1$ is connected with $b_1,b_2, ... , b_r $. ($r$ times) $a_2$ is connected with $b_1,b_2, ... , b_r $. ($r$ times) $a_n$ is connected with $b_1,b_2, ... , b_r $. ($r$ times) It result $r^2$ times. Because the cities are connected by a direct (two way) flight we have $2r^2$.
07.07.2017 12:15
Consider all pairs $(A, B)$ satisfying the following: There exists two disjoint groups of cities $P, Q$, each of size $r$. $A$ consists of $r$ flights. No two flights share the same city, be that origin or destination. All flights in $A$ connect a city in $P$ to a city in $Q$. $B$ is the ordered pair $(P, Q)$. Any such pair is considered relevant. Now, consider any $r$ flights. It belongs to at most $2^r$ relevant pairs. To see this, note that if they are not disjoint (some city belongs to two flights), then clearly they don't belong in any relevant pair. And if they are disjoint, then we can obtain $P, Q$ by picking, for each flight, which city is in $P$ (and the other will be in $Q$). There are $2^r$ such $P, Q$. It's possible that not all of them will work, but we know there are at most $2^r$ choices. On the other hand, consider any valid choices of $P, Q$ such that every city in $P$ is connected to every city in $Q$. Any such $P, Q$ belongs in $r!$ relevant pairs: permute the cities in $Q$ and pair them up with cities in $P$ in that order to give the desired $r$ flights. Suppose there are $k$ ways to pick $P, Q$ as desired. Then we have $k \cdot r! \le 2^r \cdot m^r$ by double-counting the number of relevant pairs as described above. Since $2^r \le 2 \cdot r!$, we have $k \le 2 \cdot m^r$.