Minimum blockers for nonnested perfect matchings

📅 2026-09-13
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研究了有序图中非嵌套完美匹配的最小阻塞集问题,通过辅助区间割的最小生成树方法,给出了确定性算法及构造。
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A perfect matching in an ordered graph is nonnested if no edge lies strictly inside another. We classify the smallest edge sets meeting every nonnested perfect matching on $2k$ ordered vertices. For $k\ge2$, these blockers have $k$ edges and belong to three explicit families, with $2^k+k-2$ members in total. The proof uses a minimum spanning tree of an auxiliary interval cut; its equality case also classifies the minimum blockers for concatenations of crossing matchings. The argument gives a deterministic algorithm that, from at most $k$ deleted edges, returns a minimum blocker description or an avoiding nonnested perfect matching in $O(k^2)$ word operations and $O(k)$ auxiliary words. We also give an injection from one of the blocker families into minimum blockers of $123$-avoiding permutation matrices. Beyond the perfect case, an explicit construction gives graphs with $(k-1)n+1$ edges and no nonnested $k$-matching for every $k\ge5$ and $n\ge2k+1$.
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nonnested perfect matchings
minimum blockers
ordered graph
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nonnested perfect matchings
minimum blockers
deterministic algorithm
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Pedro M. M. de Castro
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