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Graph stays connected after deleting a vertex

Source: 2007 Bulgarian Autumn Math Competition, Problem 11.4

March 17, 2022
combinatoricsgraph theoryBulgaria

Problem Statement

There are 1000 towns A1,A2,,A1000A_{1},A_{2},\ldots ,A_{1000} with airports in a country and some of them are connected via flights. It's known that the ii-th town is connected with did_{i} other towns where d1d2d1000d_{1}\leq d_{2}\leq \ldots \leq d_{1000} and djj+1d_{j}\geq j+1 for every j=1,2,999d999j=1,2,\ldots 999-d_{999}. Prove that if the airport of any town AkA_{k} is closed, then we'd still be able to get from any town AiA_{i} to any AjA_{j} for i,jki,j\neq k (possibly by more than one flight).