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Paths, Trees, and Flowers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jack Edmonds
Jack Edmonds*
Affiliation:
National Bureau of Standards and Princeton University
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A graph G for purposes here is a finite set of elements called vertices and a finite set of elements called edges such that each edge meets exactly two vertices, called the end-points of the edge. An edge is said to join its end-points.

A matching in G is a subset of its edges such that no two meet the same vertex. We describe an efficient algorithm for finding in a given graph a matching of maximum cardinality. This problem was posed and partly solved by C. Berge; see Sections 3.7 and 3.8.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 17 , 1965 , pp. 449 - 467
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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