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The complexity of the Perfect Matching-Cut problem

Combinatorics 2021-11-01 v2

Abstract

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 bipartite five-regular graphs, for graphs of diameter three and for bipartite graphs of diameter four. We show that there exist polynomial time algorithms for the following classes of graphs: claw-free, P5P_5-free, diameter two, bipartite with diameter three and graphs with bounded tree-width.

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@article{arxiv.2011.03318,
  title  = {The complexity of the Perfect Matching-Cut problem},
  author = {Valentin Bouquet and Christophe Picouleau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03318},
  year   = {2021}
}
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