Perfectly matchable subgraph problem on a bipartite graph

Issue		RAIRO Oper. Res. Volume 44, Number 1, January-March 2010


Page(s)		27 - 42
DOI		10.1051/ro/2010004
Published online		08 February 2010

RAIRO-Oper. Res. 44 (2010) 27-42

Perfectly matchable subgraph problem on a bipartite graph

Firdovsi Sharifov

Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Glushkova pr. 40, MSP, 252650 Kyiv, Ukraine; F-sharifov@yandex.ru

Abstract

We consider the maximum weight perfectly matchable subgraph problem on a bipartite graph G=(UV,E) with respect to given nonnegative weights of its edges. We show that G has a perfect matching if and only if some vector indexed by the nodes in UV is a base of an extended polymatroid associated with a submodular function defined on the subsets of UV. The dual problem of the separation problem for the extended polymatroid is transformed to the special maximum flow problem on G. In this paper, we give a linear programming formulation for the maximum weight perfectly matchable subgraph problem and propose an algorithm to solve it.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C70 / 05C85

Key words: Bipartite graph / extended polymatroid / perfect matching / perfectly matchable subgraph

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