We give a necessary and sufficient condition of Hall’s type for a family of sets of even cardinality to be decomposable into two subfamilies having a common system of distinct representatives. An application of this result to partitions of Steiner Triple Systems into small configurations is presented.
Citation
Peter Horak, Salem Al Yakoob. Halving Families of Sets[J], Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Volume 041. 245-254. .