Description: The sum of the degrees of all vertices of a finite pseudograph of finite size is twice the size of the pseudograph. See equation (1) in section I.1 in Bollobas p. 4. Here, the "proof" is simply the statement "Since each edge has two endvertices, the sum of the degrees is exactly twice the number of edges". The formal proof of this theorem (for pseudographs) is much more complicated, taking also the used auxiliary theorems into account. The proof for a (finite) simple graph (see fusgr1th ) would be shorter, but nevertheless still laborious. Although this theorem would hold also for infinite pseudographs and pseudographs of infinite size, the proof of this most general version (see theorem "sumvtxdg2size" below) would require many more auxiliary theorems (e.g., the extension of the sum sum_ over an arbitrary set).
I dedicate this theorem and its proof to Norman Megill, who deceased too early on December 9, 2021. This proof is an example for the rigor which was the main motivation for Norman Megill to invent and develop Metamath, see section 1.1.6 "Rigor" on page 19 of the Metamath book: "... it is usually assumed in mathematical literature that the person reading the proof is a mathematician familiar with the specialty being described, and that the missing steps are obvious to such a reader or at least the reader is capable of filling them in." I filled in the missing steps of Bollobas' proof as Norm would have liked it... (Contributed by Alexander van der Vekens, 19-Dec-2021)
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Hypotheses | sumvtxdg2size.v | |
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Assertion | finsumvtxdg2size | |