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A Real Polynomial for Bipartite Graph Minimum Weight Perfect Matchings

Discrete Mathematics 2020-03-26 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In a recent paper, Beniamini and Nisan gave a closed-form formula for the unique multilinear polynomial for the Boolean function determining whether a given bipartite graph GKn,nG \subseteq K_{n,n} has a perfect matching, together with an efficient algorithm for computing the coefficients of the monomials of this polynomial. We give the following generalization: Given an arbitrary non-negative weight function ww on the edges of Kn,nK_{n,n}, consider its set of minimum weight perfect matchings. We give the real multilinear polynomial for the Boolean function which determines if a graph GKn,nG \subseteq K_{n,n} contains one of these minimum weight perfect matchings.

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@article{arxiv.2003.08917,
  title  = {A Real Polynomial for Bipartite Graph Minimum Weight Perfect Matchings},
  author = {Thorben Tröbst and Vijay V. Vazirani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08917},
  year   = {2020}
}

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7 pages

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