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Partitioning to three matchings of given size is NP-complete for bipartite graphs

Open Access
|Jan 2015

Abstract

We show that the problem of deciding whether the edge set of a bipartite graph can be partitioned into three matchings, of size k1, k2 and k3 is NP-complete, even if one of the matchings is required to be perfect. We also show that the problem of deciding whether the edge set of a simple graph contains a perfect matching and a disjoint matching of size k or not is NP-complete, already for bipartite graphs with maximum degree 3. It also follows from our construction that it is NP-complete to decide whether in a bipartite graph there is a perfect matching and a disjoint matching that covers all vertices whose degree is at least 2.

Language: English
Page range: 206 - 209
Submitted on: Jul 11, 2014
Published on: Jan 27, 2015
Published by: Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 times per year

© 2015 Dömötör Pálvölgyi, published by Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
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