A Simple Condition for the Existence of Transversals

Abstract

Hall's Theorem is a basic result in Combinatorics which states that the obvious necesssary condition for a finite family of sets to have a transversal is also sufficient. We present a sufficient (but not necessary) condition on the sizes of the sets in the family and the sizes of their intersections so that a transversal exists. Using this, we prove that in a bipartite graph $G$ (bipartition $\{A,B\}$), without 4-cycles, if $°(v)\ge \sqrt{2e|A|}$ for all $v\in A$, then $G$ has a matching of size $|A|$.