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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

We show that the number of perfect matching in a simple graph $G$ with an even number of vertices and degree sequence $d_1,d_2, ..., d_n$ is at most $\prod_{i=1}^n (d_i !)^{\frac{1}{2d_i}}$. This bound is sharp if and only if $G$ is a union…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-26 Noga Alon , Shmuel Friedland

Haxell's condition is a natural hypergraph analog of Hall's condition, which is a well-known necessary and sufficient condition for a bipartite graph to admit a perfect matching. That is, when Haxell's condition holds it forces the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Chidambaram Annamalai

The approach mapping from a matching of bipartite graphs to digraphs has been successfully used for forcing set problem, in this paper, it is extended to uniquely restricted matching problem. We show to determine a uniquely restricted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-29 Guohun Zhu

In this paper, we present several density-type theorems which show how to find a copy of a sparse bipartite graph in a graph of positive density. Our results imply several new bounds for classical problems in graph Ramsey theory and improve…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-12 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

In this note we study inhomogeneous random bipartite graphs in random environment. These graphs can be thought of as an extension of the classical Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs in a random environment. We show that the expected number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jairo Bochi , Godofredo Iommi , Mario Ponce

In an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, we say $(A,B)$ is a pair of perfectly matched sets if $A$ and $B$ are disjoint subsets of $V$ and every vertex in $A$ (resp. $B$) has exactly one neighbor in $B$ (resp. $A$). The size of a pair of perfectly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 N. R. Aravind , Roopam Saxena

We discuss the question whether the existence of perfect matchings in a cubic graph can be seen from the spectrum of its adjacency matrix. For regular graphs in general and for three edge-disjoint perfect matchings in a cubic graph (that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Willem H. Haemers

Aslam presents an algorithm he claims will count the number of perfect matchings in any incomplete bipartite graph with an algorithm in the function-computing version of NC, which is itself a subset of FP. Counting perfect matchings is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-05-15 Frank Ferraro , Garrett Hall , Andrew Wood

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

A matching $M$ in a graph $G$ is said to be uniquely restricted if there is no other matching in $G$ that matches the same set of vertices as $M$. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a maximum cardinality uniquely restricted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Mathew C. Francis , Dalu Jacob , Satyabrata Jana

We prove that there exist perfect graphs of arbitrarily large clique-chromatic number. These graphs can be obtained from cobipartite graphs by repeatedly gluing along cliques. This negatively answers a question raised by Duffus, Sands,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Pierre Charbit , Irena Penev , Stéphan Thomassé , Nicolas Trotignon

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

Perfect matchings and maximum weight matchings are two fundamental combinatorial structures. We consider the ratio between the maximum weight of a perfect matching and the maximum weight of a general matching. Motivated by the computer…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Emilio Vital Brazil , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , Celina de Figueiredo , Diana Sasaki

In a graph, a perfect matching cut is an edge cut that is a perfect matching. Perfect Matching Cut (PMC) is the problem of deciding whether a given graph has a perfect matching cut, and is known to be NP-complete. We revisit the problem and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Van Bang Le , Jan Arne Telle

The problem of (approximately) counting the independent sets of a bipartite graph (#BIS) is the canonical approximate counting problem that is complete in the intermediate complexity class #RH\Pi_1. It is believed that #BIS does not have an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Radu Curticapean , Holger Dell , Fedor Fomin , Leslie Ann Goldberg , John Lapinskas

We consider the problem of partitioning a graph into a non-fixed number of non-overlapping subgraphs of maximum density. The density of a partition is the sum of the densities of the subgraphs, where the density of a subgraph is its average…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Cristina Bazgan , Katrin Casel , Pierre Cazals

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

Let H be a graph, and let C_H(G) be the number of (subgraph isomorphic) copies of H contained in a graph G. We investigate the fundamental problem of estimating C_H(G). Previous results cover only a few specific instances of this general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Assume that there is a free group action of automorphisms on a bipartite graph. If there is a perfect matching on the factor graph, then obviously there is a perfect matching on the graph. Surprisingly, the reversed is also true for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Jan Fricke