Optimum matchings in weighted bipartite graphs
Abstract
Given an integer weighted bipartite graph we consider the problems of finding all the edges that occur in some minimum weight matching of maximum cardinality and enumerating all the minimum weight perfect matchings. Moreover, we construct a subgraph of which depends on an -optimal solution of the dual linear program associated to the assignment problem on that allows us to reduced this problems to their unweighed variants on . For instance, when has a perfect matching and we have an -optimal solution of the dual linear program associated to the assignment problem on , we solve the problem of finding all the edges that occur in some minimum weight perfect matching in linear time on the number of edges. Therefore, starting from scratch we get an algorithm that solves this problem in time , where , , and .
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@article{arxiv.1403.5606,
title = {Optimum matchings in weighted bipartite graphs},
author = {Carlos E. Valencia and Marcos C. Vargas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5606},
year = {2014}
}
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11 pages