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- From: tage@ii.uib.no (Tage Steffensen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Graph Problem
- Keywords: Combinatorial problem, bipartite graphs.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.084511.3401@alf.uib.no>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 08:45:11 GMT
- Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen
- Lines: 47
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- Let G = (V,U,E) be a bipartite graph such that V and U are two disjunct sets of
- vertices and E is a set of edges connecting vertices from V to U.
-
- Further make the following assumptions.
-
- - each V has exactly l edges. ( l < | V | )
- - |V| <= |U|.
-
- - foreach subsett v of V there are at least |v| distinct vertices in U that
- are connected to the vertices in v.
-
- example. V = 1, 2, 3.
- U = ( a, b, c, d )
- l = 2
- E = { (1a) (1b) (2c) ( 2d) ( 3b ) ( 3d ) }
- v = ( 1, 3 ). We then know that 1 and 3 must be connected to at
- least 2 different vertices in U.
-
- The vertices in U that is connected to a vertice in v is (a, b, d )
-
- A perfect matching is a matching of pairs of vertices one from V and one from U,
- such that all vertices in V is matched to a vertice in U.
-
- The vertices can onlu be matched if there is an edge from the vertice in V to the
- one in U.
-
- A perfect matching in the example is ( 1=a, 2=c, 3=b )
- Other solutions will be ( 1=a, 2=c, 3=d ) ( 1=a, 2=d, 3=b ) and ( 1=b, 2=c, 3=d)
-
- My problem is : can anything be said of the number of perfect matching in this
- graph given the definitions over.
-
- I've been trying to find a formula that will tell me how many solutions there are
- to this problem. The formula should take in account the number of vertices in V, the
- number of vertices in U and the costant l that says how many edges there are from each
- V.
-
- If it is not possible to find such a solution is ut possible to say anything of the range
- of the number. example there are at least k1 matching's and no more than k1.
-
- Also note that we are sure that there will exist at least one matching under the
- given conditions.
-
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