English

Bichromatic compatible matchings

Computational Geometry 2013-11-27 v3

Abstract

For a set RR of nn red points and a set BB of nn blue points, a BRBR-matching is a non-crossing geometric perfect matching where each segment has one endpoint in BB and one in RR. Two BRBR-matchings are compatible if their union is also non-crossing. We prove that, for any two distinct BRBR-matchings MM and MM', there exists a sequence of BRBR-matchings M=M1,...,Mk=MM = M_1, ..., M_k = M' such that Mi1M_{i-1} is compatible with MiM_i. This implies the connectivity of the compatible bichromatic matching graph containing one node for each bichromatic matching and an edge joining each pair of compatible matchings, thereby answering the open problem posed by Aichholzer et al. in "Compatible matchings for bichromatic plane straight-line graphs"

Cite

@article{arxiv.1207.2375,
  title  = {Bichromatic compatible matchings},
  author = {Greg Aloupis and Luis Barba and Stefan Langerman and Diane L. Souvaine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.2375},
  year   = {2013}
}
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