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In 2005, Goddard, Hedetniemi, Hedetniemi and Laskar [Generalized subgraph-restricted matchings in graphs, Discrete Mathematics, 293 (2005) 129 - 138] asked the computational complexity of determining the maximum cardinality of a matching…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Bruno P. Masquio , Paulo E. D. Pinto , Vinicius F. dos Santos , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

We study the stable matching problem in non-bipartite graphs with incomplete but strict preference lists, where the edges have weights and the goal is to compute a stable matching of minimum or maximum weight. This problem is known to be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Linda Farczadi , Natália Guričanová

Motivated by the concept of well-covered graphs, we define a graph to be well-bicovered if every vertex-maximal bipartite subgraph has the same order (which we call the bipartite number). We first give examples of them, compare them with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Wayne Goddard , Kirsti Kuenzel , Eileen Melville

If $G$ is a bridgeless cubic graph, Fulkerson conjectured that we can find 6 perfect matchings $M_1,...,M_6$ of $G$ with the property that every edge of $G$ is contained in exactly two of them and Berge conjectured that its edge set can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-04-09 Jean-Luc Fouquet , Jean-Marie Vanherpe

Computing the permanent of a $(0,1)$-matrix is a well-known $\#P$-complete problem. In this paper, we present an expression for the permanent of a bipartite graph in terms of the determinant of the graph and its subgraphs, obtained by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Surabhi Chakrabartty , Ranveer Singh

Subgraph isomorphism counting is known as #P-complete and requires exponential time to find the accurate solution. Utilizing representation learning has been shown as a promising direction to represent substructures and approximate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xin Liu , Weiqi Wang , Jiaxin Bai , Yangqiu Song

We study the ratio, in a finite graph, of the sizes of the largest matching in any pair of disjoint matchings with the maximum total number of edges and the largest possible matching. Previously, it was shown that this ratio is between 4/5…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Zhengda Mo , Sam Qunell , Anush Tserunyan , Jenna Zomback

In multistage perfect matching problems we are given a sequence of graphs on the same vertex set and asked to find a sequence of perfect matchings, corresponding to the sequence of graphs, such that consecutive matchings are as similar as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Markus Chimani , Niklas Troost , Tilo Wiedera

A maximal $\varepsilon$-near perfect matching is a maximal matching which covers at least $(1-\varepsilon)|V(G)|$ vertices. In this paper, we study the number of maximal near perfect matchings in generalized quasirandom and dense graphs. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Yifan Jing , Akbar Rafiey

We consider parameterised subgraph-counting problems of the following form: given a graph G, how many k-tuples of its vertices have a given property? A number of such problems are known to be #W[1]-complete; here we substantially generalise…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Mark Jerrum , Kitty Meeks

The Induced Graph Matching problem asks to find k disjoint induced subgraphs isomorphic to a given graph H in a given graph G such that there are no edges between vertices of different subgraphs. This problem generalizes the classical…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Danny Hermelin , Matthias Mnich , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

A graph G is perfect if for every induced subgraph H, the chromatic number of H equals the size of the largest complete subgraph of H, and G is Berge if no induced subgraph of G is an odd cycle of length at least 5 or the complement of one.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maria Chudnovsky , Neil Robertson , Paul Seymour , Robin Thomas

In this note, we prove an interesting result about perfect matchings in a complete bipartite graph with 2n vertices on each side, whose edges are colored in red and blue such that each vertex is part of n red edges and n blue edges.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Tudor Popescu

We prove that a fractional perfect matching in a non-bipartite graph can be written, in polynomial time, as a convex combination of perfect matchings. This extends the Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem from bipartite to non-bipartite graphs. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Vijay V. Vazirani

It has been conjectured that for every claw-free graph $G$ the choice number of $G$ is equal to its chromatic number. We focus on the special case of this conjecture where $G$ is perfect. Claw-free perfect graphs can be decomposed via…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Sylvain Gravier , Frédéric Maffray , Lucas Pastor

We introduce the matching measure of a finite graph as the uniform distribution on the roots of the matching polynomial of the graph. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of the matching measure for graph sequences with bounded degree. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Miklos Abért , Péter Csikvári , Péter Frenkel , Gábor Kun

A theorem of Ding, Oporowski, Oxley, and Vertigan implies that any sufficiently large twin-free graph contains a large matching, a co-matching, or a half-graph as a semi-induced subgraph. The sizes of these unavoidable patterns are measured…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jan Dreier , Nikolas Mählmann , Sebastian Siebertz

In this paper, we prove that the 2-factor polynomial, an invariant of a planar trivalent graph with a perfect matching, counts the number of 2- factors that contain the the perfect matching as a subgraph. Consequently, we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Scott Baldridge , Adam M. Lowrance , Ben McCarty

We provide a characterisation of all graphs whose parity binomial edge ideals have pure resolutions. In particular, we show that the minimal free resolution of a parity binomial edge ideal is pure if and only if the corresponding graph is a…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Peter Phelan

Exact pattern matching in labeled graphs is the problem of searching paths of a graph $G=(V,E)$ that spell the same string as the pattern $P[1..m]$. This basic problem can be found at the heart of more complex operations on variation graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Massimo Equi , Roberto Grossi , Veli Mäkinen