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Given a graph with edges colored red or blue and an integer $k$, the exact perfect matching problem asks if there exists a perfect matching with exactly $k$ red edges. There exists a randomized polylogarithmic-time parallel algorithm to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xinrui Jia , Ola Svensson , Weiqiang Yuan

We study two variants of \textsc{Maximum Cut}, which we call \textsc{Connected Maximum Cut} and \textsc{Maximum Minimal Cut}, in this paper. In these problems, given an unweighted graph, the goal is to compute a maximum cut satisfying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Hiroshi Eto , Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi

It is well-known that the graph isomorphism problem can be posed as an equivalent problem of determining whether an auxiliary graph structure contains a clique of specific order. However, the algorithms that have been developed so far for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

We design and implement an efficient parallel algorithm for finding a perfect matching in a weighted bipartite graph such that weights on the edges of the matching are large. This problem differs from the maximum weight matching problem,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluc , Xiaoye S. Li , Xinliang Wang , Johannes Langguth

Given two graphs, the graph matching problem is to align the two vertex sets so as to minimize the number of adjacency disagreements between the two graphs. The seeded graph matching problem is the graph matching problem when we are first…

Enumerating matchings is a classical problem in the field of enumeration algorithms. There are polynomial-delay enumeration algorithms for several settings, such as enumerating perfect matchings, maximal matchings, and (weighted) matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa

We present an algorithm that enumerates all the perfect matchings in a given bipartite graph G = (V,E). Our algorithm requires a constant amortized time to visit one perfect matching of G, in contrast to the current fastest algorithm,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jiří Fink

We introduce the concept of matching connectivity as a notion of connectivity in graph admitting perfect matchings which heavily relies on the structural properties of those matchings. We generalise a result of Robertson, Seymour and Thomas…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Stephan Kreutzer , Sebastian Wiederrecht

A matching is a set of edges without common endpoint. It was recently shown that every 1-planar graph (i.e., a graph that can be drawn in the plane with at most one crossing per edge) that has minimum degree 3 has a matching of size at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Therese Biedl , Fabian Klute

Matching minors are a specialisation of minors fit for the study of graph with perfect matchings. The notion of matching minors has been used to give a structural description of bipartite graphs on which the number of perfect matchings can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Archontia C Giannopoulou , Stephan Kreutzer , Sebastian Wiederrecht

A proper labeling of a graph is an assignment of integers to some elements of a graph, which may be the vertices, the edges, or both of them, such that we obtain a proper vertex coloring via the labeling subject to some conditions. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Arash Ahadi

Finding complete subgraphs in a graph, that is, cliques, is a key problem and has many real-world applications, e.g., finding communities in social networks, clustering gene expression data, modeling ecological niches in food webs, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Melisew Tefera Belachew , Nicolas Gillis

The odd-red bipartite perfect matching problem asks to find a perfect matching containing an odd number of red edges in a given red-blue edge-colored bipartite graph. While this problem lies in $\mathsf{P}$, its polyhedral structure remains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Martin Nägele , Christian Nöbel , Rico Zenklusen

Valiant introduced matchgate computation and holographic algorithms. A number of seemingly exponential time problems can be solved by this novel algorithmic paradigm in polynomial time. We show that, in a very strong sense, matchgate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-05 Jin-Yi Cai , Pinyan Lu , Mingji Xia

Many complex questions in biology, physics, and mathematics can be mapped to the graph isomorphism problem and the closely related graph automorphism problem. In particular, these problems appear in the context of network visualization,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Charo I. Del Genio , Thilo Gross

For a graph $G=(V,E),$ a matching $M$ is a set of independent edges. The topic of matchings is well studied in graph theory. In this paper many varieties of matchings are discussed.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Todd Fenstermacher , Soumendra Ganguly , Stephen Hedetniemi , Renu Laskar

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for a class of Holant problems on planar 3-regular bipartite graphs. The complexity dichotomy states that for every weighted constraint function $f$ defining the problem (the weights can even be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jin-Yi Cai , Austen Z. Fan

In 1982 Papadimitriou and Yannakakis introduced the Exact Matching problem, in which given a red and blue edge-colored graph $G$ and an integer $k$ one has to decide whether there exists a perfect matching in $G$ with exactly $k$ red edges.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Anita Dürr , Nicolas El Maalouly , Lasse Wulf

We present a novel local improvement scheme for the perfectly balanced graph partitioning problem. This scheme encodes local searches that are not restricted to a balance constraint into a model allowing us to find combinations of these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

The problem of finding a maximum size matching in a graph (known as the maximum matching problem) is one of the most classical problems in computer science. Despite a significant body of work dedicated to the study of this problem in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Moran Feldman , Ariel Szarf