Simple Proofs to Three Parity Theorems

Yair Caro1
1Department of Mathematics School of Education University of Haifa – ORANIM Tivon 36-910 ISREAL

Abstract

Using linear algebra over \(\text{GF}(2)\) we supply simple proofs to three parity theorems: Gallai’s partition theorem, the odd-parity cover theorem of Sutner, and generalize the “odd-cycle property” theorem of Manber and Shao to binary matroids.