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Perfect Matching-Cut is the problem of deciding whether a graph has a perfect matching that contains an edge-cut. We show that this problem is NP-complete for planar graphs with maximum degree four, for planar graphs with girth five, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Valentin Bouquet , Christophe Picouleau

In a graph, a (perfect) matching cut is an edge cut that is a (perfect) matching. Matching Cut (MC), respectively, Perfect Matching Cut (PMC), is the problem of deciding whether a given graph has a matching cut, respectively, a perfect…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hoang-Oanh Le , Van Bang Le

In a graph, a matching cut is an edge cut that is a matching. Matching Cut is the problem of deciding whether or not a given graph has a matching cut, which is known to be NP-complete even when restricted to bipartite graphs. It has been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Hoang-Oanh Le , Van Bang Le

The (Perfect) Matching Cut problem is to decide if a connected graph has a (perfect) matching that is also an edge cut. The Disconnected Perfect Matching problem is to decide if a connected graph has a perfect matching that contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Carl Feghali , Felicia Lucke , Daniel Paulusma , Bernard Ries

A perfect matching cut is a perfect matching that is also a cutset, or equivalently a perfect matching containing an even number of edges on every cycle. The corresponding algorithmic problem, Perfect Matching Cut, is known to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Édouard Bonnet , Dibyayan Chakraborty , Julien Duron

The (Perfect) Matching Cut problem is to decide if a graph $G$ has a (perfect) matching cut, i.e., a (perfect) matching that is also an edge cut of $G$. Both Matching Cut and Perfect Matching Cut are known to be NP-complete. A perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

A matching-cut of a graph is an edge cut that is a matching. The problem Matching-Cut is that of recognizing graphs with a matching-cut and is NP-complete, even if the graph belongs to one of a number of classes. We initiate the study of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Carl Feghali

A matching cut is a matching that is also an edge cut. In the problem Minimum Matching Cut, we ask for a matching cut with the minimum number of edges in the matching. We investigate the differences in complexity between Minimum Matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Felicia Lucke , Joseph Marchand , Jannik Olbrich

The NP-complete problem Matching Cut is to decide if a graph has a matching that is also an edge cut of the graph. We prove new complexity results for Matching Cut restricted to $H$-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

In the Matching Cut problem we ask whether a graph $G$ has a matching cut, that is, a matching which is also an edge cut of $G$. We consider the variants Perfect Matching Cut and Disconnected Perfect Matching where we ask whether there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Felicia Lucke

The Matching Cut problem is to decide if the vertex set of a connected graph can be partitioned into two non-empty sets $B$ and $R$ such that the edges between $B$ and $R$ form a matching, that is, every vertex in $B$ has at most one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Jungho Ahn , Tala Eagling-Vose , Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Siani Smith

We study the perfect matching reconfiguration problem: Given two perfect matchings of a graph, is there a sequence of flip operations that transforms one into the other? Here, a flip operation exchanges the edges in an alternating cycle of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Marc Heinrich , Takehiro Ito , Yusuke Kobayashi , Arnaud Mary , Moritz Mühlenthaler , Kunihiro Wasa

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

A matching cut in a graph G is an edge cut of G that is also a matching. This short survey gives an overview of old and new results and open problems for Maximum Matching Cut, which is to determine the size of a largest matching cut in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Van Bang Le , Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

A matching cut of a graph is a partition of its vertex set in two such that no vertex has more than one neighbor across the cut. The Matching Cut problem asks if a graph has a matching cut. This problem, and its generalization d-cut, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Emanuel Juliano , Gabriel Martins , Vinicius F. dos Santos

A matching cut is a partition of the vertex set of a graph into two sets $A$ and $B$ such that each vertex has at most one neighbor in the other side of the cut. The MATCHING CUT problem asks whether a graph has a matching cut, and has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Ignasi Sau

The d-Cut problem is to decide if a graph has an edge cut such that each vertex has at most d neighbours at the opposite side of the cut. If $d=1$, we obtain the intensively studied Matching Cut problem. The d-Cut problem has been studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Felicia Lucke , Ali Momeni , Daniël Paulusma , Siani Smith

For a connected graph $G=(V,E)$, a matching $M\subseteq E$ is a matching cut of $G$ if $G-M$ is disconnected. It is known that for an integer $d$, the corresponding decision problem Matching Cut is polynomial-time solvable for graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

A \emph{co-bipartite chain} graph is a co-bipartite graph in which the neighborhoods of the vertices in each clique can be linearly ordered with respect to inclusion. It is known that the maximum cut problem (MaxCut) is NP-Hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Arman Boyacı , Tınaz Ekim , Mordechai Shalom

A perfect matching in a hypergraph is a set of edges that partition the set of vertices. We study the complexity of deciding the existence of a perfect matching in orderable and separable hypergraphs. We show that the class of orderable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Shmuel Onn
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