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Let $X$ and $Y$ be sets, and $\mathcal{B}$ be a partition of $X \times Y$. I would like to prove that there exists a distribution $\mathcal{D}$ over $X \times Y$ whose marginal is uniform over $X$, and such that the distribution over $\mathcal{B}$ induced by $\mathcal{D}$ has large entropy(the latter distribution is defined by assigning each $B∈\mathcal{B}$ the total probability mass of the elements of $B$ under $\mathcal{D}$). We can use the following condition:

Consider the bipartite graph $G$ whose sides are $X$ and $\mathcal{B}$, such that for each $(x,y) \in B$ there is an edge $(x,B)$ in $G$ (multiple edges possible). Then, every set of $x$'s of size at least $\frac{3}{4}|X|$ has at least $\frac{1}{100}|B|$ neighbors in G.

I would appreciate it if someone could refer me to a relevant theorem. This question can be viewed in a sense as a generalization of Hall's theorem, where the above condition is a relaxation Hall's condition, and where instead of getting a perfect matching, we get a set of edges whose corresponding subgraph is roughly regular.

Background: The motivation for this questions comes from communication complexity. In the setting of communication complexity, two players, Alice and Bob, get inputs $x$ and $y$ respectively, and interact in order to compute some function $f(x,y)$. Here, each set $B \in \mathcal{B}$ consists of pairs $(x,y)$ that yield the same transcript of communication between Alice and Bob, and I would like to prove that under some condition, one can find a distribution over $X \times Y$ such that Alice gets a uniformly distributed input, and such that the entropy of the transcript under the distribution is large.

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    $\begingroup$ We don't generally like simultaneous cross posting. It tends to fragment and duplicate the discussion. $\endgroup$ Jun 5, 2012 at 2:53
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    – Or Meir
    Jun 5, 2012 at 4:03

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You might look into the concept of $f$-factors and specially Tutte's theorem on the existence of $f$-factors. You might find Proposition 2 of this paper relevant.

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