A cellular graph is a graph whose edges can be partitioned into 4-cycles (called cells) so that each vertex is contained in at most two cells. We present a ``Complementation Theorem'' for the number of matchings of certain subgraphs of cellular graphs. This generalizes the main result of M. Ciucu (J
Perfect matchings of a graph
β Scribed by Ian Anderson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0095-8956
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