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Source: Iranian National Olympiad (3rd Round) 2002

October 2, 2006
graph theorycombinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

We have a bipartite graph GG (with parts XX and YY). We orient each edge arbitrarily. Hessam chooses a vertex at each turn and reverse the orientation of all edges that vv is one of their endpoint. Prove that with these steps we can reach to a graph that for each vertex vv in part XX, deg+(v)deg(v)\deg^{+}(v)\geq \deg^{-}(v) and for each vertex in part YY, deg+vdegv\deg^{+}v\leq \deg^{-}v