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Transversal hypergraphs to perfect matchings in bipartite graphs: Characterization and generation algorithms

✍ Scribed by Endre Boros; Khaled Elbassioni; Vladimir Gurvich


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
285 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0364-9024

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✦ Synopsis


A minimal blocker in a bipartite graph G is a minimal set of edges the removal of which leaves no perfect matching in G. We give an explicit characterization of the minimal blockers of a bipartite graph G. This result allows us to obtain a polynomial delay algorithm for finding all minimal blockers of a given bipartite graph. Equivalently, we obtain a polynomial delay algorithm for listing the anti-vertices of the perfect matching polytope of G. We also provide generation algorithms for other related problems,