Stijn Cambie, Penny Haxell, Ross J. Kang, Ronen Wdowinski
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SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 1451-1461, June 2024. Abstract. Given a bipartite graph [math] in which any vertex in [math] (resp., [math]) has degree at most [math] (resp., [math]), suppose there is a partition of [math] that is a refinement of the bipartition [math] such that the parts in [math] (resp., [math]) have size at least [math] (resp., [math]). We prove that the condition [math] is sufficient for the existence of an independent set of vertices of [math] that is simultaneously transversal to the partition and show, moreover, that this condition is sharp. This result is a bipartite refinement of two well-known results on independent transversals, one due to the second author and the other due to Szabó and Tardos.
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