Mkrtchyan–Petrosyan–Vardanyan conjecture on maximum matchings
Mkrtchyan–Petrosyan–Vardanyan conjecture on maximum matchings
Let be a graph, possibly with multiple edges but no loops, and let and denote its maximum and minimum degrees. A matching is maximum if it has largest possible cardinality, and a vertex is -unsaturated if it is not incident with an edge of .
Mkrtchyan–Petrosyan–Vardanyan conjecture. If
then contains a maximum matching such that no two -unsaturated vertices have a common neighbor.
The conjecture is refuted: Picouleau found a counterexample that is a simple bipartite graph with and .
Sources & referencesView supporting material
Primary source
Dong Ye, “Maximum matchings in regular graphs”, arXiv:1308.2269 (2016).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2013). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1202.0681.
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