Re: Please help Graph Theory



In article <1138570992.735299.319590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<charleshowardmath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Could someone help me understand why this is true:
> Every graph with average degree d contains a bipartite subgraph of
>average degree at least d/2.
>
>Thanks Charles

Hint: suppose we randomly label the vertices "a" and "b". What is
the expected number of edges whose vertices have different labels?

Robert Israel israel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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