[Merged by Bors] - feat(combinatorics/double_counting): Double-counting the edges of a bipartite graph #11372
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This proves a classic of double-counting arguments: If each element of the
|α|
elements on the left is connected to at leastm
elements on the right and each of the|β|
elements on the right is connected to at mostn
elements on the left, then|α| * m ≤ |β| * n
because the LHS is less than the number of edges which is less than the RHS.This is put in a new file
combinatorics.double_counting
with the idea that we could gather double counting arguments here, much as is done withcombinatorics.pigeonhole
.