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 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 on the edges of , consider its set of minimum weight perfect matchings. We give the real multilinear polynomial for the Boolean function which determines if a graph 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