# Majorization and the number of bipartite graphs for given vertex degrees

Document Type: Research Paper

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Department of Computer Science Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Abstract

The \emph{bipartite realisation problem} asks for a pair of non-negative‎, ‎non-increasing integer lists $a:=(a_1,\ldots,a_n)$ and $b:=(b_1,\ldots,b_{n'})$ if there is a labeled bipartite graph $G(U,V,E)$ (no loops or multiple edges) such that each vertex $u_i \in U$ has degree $a_i$ and each vertex $v_i \in V$ degree $b_i.$ The Gale-Ryser theorem provides characterisations for the existence of a `realisation' $G(U,V,E)$ that are strongly related to the concept of \emph{majorisation}‎. ‎We prove a generalisation; list pair $(a,b)$ has more realisations than $(a',b),$ if $a'$ majorises $a.$ Furthermore‎, ‎we give explicitly list pairs which possess the largest number of realisations under all $(a,b)$ with fixed $n$‎, ‎$n'$ and $m:=\sum_{i=1}^n a_i.$ We introduce the notion~\emph{minconvex list pairs} for them‎. ‎If $n$ and $n'$ divide $m,$ minconvex list pairs turn in the special case of two constant lists $a=(\frac{m}{n},\ldots,\frac{m}{n})$ and $b=(\frac{m}{n'},\ldots,\frac{m}{n'}).$‎

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