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I am reading "introduction to graph theory" written by Douglas. I try to understand the proof of 1.3.19 theorem from this book but I failed... Here is the statement.

$\text{Every loopless graph G has a bipartite subgraph with at least e(G)/2 edges.}$

Author starts with any partition $V(G)$ into two sets $X,Y$. Using the edges having one endpoint in each set yields a bipartite subgraph $H$ with bipartition $X,Y$. He said that if $H$ contains fewer than half the edges of $G$ incident to a vertex $v$, then $v$ has more edges to vertices in its own class than in the other class. Moving $v$ to the other class gains more edges of $G$ than it loses.

I do not understand whyhave a graph where I can't manage to create a subgraph meeting the last two sentences are truecondition where each vertex has at least half as many adjacent edges as in the full graph. Could Can anyone give some example or detailed description about this theoremshow me the bipartite subgraph that meets the condition? Thanks!

I am reading "introduction to graph theory" written by Douglas. I try to understand the proof of 1.3.19 theorem from this book but I failed... Here is the statement.

$\text{Every loopless graph G has a bipartite subgraph with at least e(G)/2 edges.}$

Author starts with any partition $V(G)$ into two sets $X,Y$. Using the edges having one endpoint in each set yields a bipartite subgraph $H$ with bipartition $X,Y$. He said that if $H$ contains fewer than half the edges of $G$ incident to a vertex $v$, then $v$ has more edges to vertices in its own class than in the other class. Moving $v$ to the other class gains more edges of $G$ than it loses.

I do not understand why the last two sentences are true. Could anyone give some example or detailed description about this theorem? Thanks!

I am reading "introduction to graph theory" written by Douglas. I try to understand the proof of 1.3.19 theorem from this book but I failed... Here is the statement.

$\text{Every loopless graph G has a bipartite subgraph with at least e(G)/2 edges.}$

Author starts with any partition $V(G)$ into two sets $X,Y$. Using the edges having one endpoint in each set yields a bipartite subgraph $H$ with bipartition $X,Y$. He said that if $H$ contains fewer than half the edges of $G$ incident to a vertex $v$, then $v$ has more edges to vertices in its own class than in the other class. Moving $v$ to the other class gains more edges of $G$ than it loses.

I have a graph where I can't manage to create a subgraph meeting the condition where each vertex has at least half as many adjacent edges as in the full graph. Can anyone show me the bipartite subgraph that meets the condition?

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how to proof "every loopless graph G has a bipartite subgraph with at least e(G)/2 edges"?

I am reading "introduction to graph theory" written by Douglas. I try to understand the proof of 1.3.19 theorem from this book but I failed... Here is the statement.

$\text{Every loopless graph G has a bipartite subgraph with at least e(G)/2 edges.}$

Author starts with any partition $V(G)$ into two sets $X,Y$. Using the edges having one endpoint in each set yields a bipartite subgraph $H$ with bipartition $X,Y$. He said that if $H$ contains fewer than half the edges of $G$ incident to a vertex $v$, then $v$ has more edges to vertices in its own class than in the other class. Moving $v$ to the other class gains more edges of $G$ than it loses.

I do not understand why the last two sentences are true. Could anyone give some example or detailed description about this theorem? Thanks!