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On the size of matchings in 1-planar graph with high minimum degree

Combinatorics 2022-07-11 v1

Abstract

A matching of a graph is a set of edges without common end vertex. A graph is called 1-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once. Recently, Biedl and Wittnebel proved that every 1-planar graph with minimum degree 3 and n7n\geq 7 vertices has a matching of size at least n+127\frac{n+12}{7}, which is tight for some graphs. They also provided tight lower bounds for the sizes of matchings in 1-planar graphs with minimum degree 4 or 5. In this paper, we show that any 1-planar graph with minimum degree 6 and n36n \geq 36 vertices has a matching of size at least 3n+47\frac{3n+4}{7}, and this lower bound is tight. Our result confirms a conjecture posed by Biedl and Wittnebel.

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@article{arxiv.2207.03747,
  title  = {On the size of matchings in 1-planar graph with high minimum degree},
  author = {Yuanqiu Huang and Zhangdong Ouyang and Fengming Dong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.03747},
  year   = {2022}
}

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19 pages and 5 figures. To appear in SIAM Discrete Mathematics