Perfect matchings in pruned grid graphs

Perfect Matchings in Edge-Transitive Graphs

We find recursive formulae for the number of perfect matchings in a graph G by splitting G into subgraphs H and Q. We use these formulas to count perfect matching of P hypercube Qn. We also apply our formulas to prove that the number of perfect matching in an edge-transitive graph is , where denotes the number of perfect matchings in G, is the graph constructed from by deleting edges with an en...

Perfect Matchings in Grid Graphs after Vertex Deletions

Bipartite Graphs and Perfect Matchings

When we think about markets creating opportunities for interaction between buyers and sellers, there is an implicit network encoding the access between buyers and sellers. In fact, there are several ways to use networks to model buyer-seller interaction, and here we discuss some of them. First, consider the case in which not all buyers have access to all sellers. There could be several reasons ...

Perfect Matchings of Cellular Graphs

We introduce a family of graphs, called cellular, and consider the problem of enumerating their perfect matchings. We prove that the number of perfect matchings of a cellular graph equals a power of 2 tiroes the number of perfect matchings of a certain subgraph, called the core of the graph. This yields, as a special case, a new proof of the fact that the Aztec diamond graph of order n introduc...

Counting perfect matchings in n-extendable graphs

The structural theory of matchings is used to establish lower bounds on the number of perfect matchings in n-extendable graphs. It is shown that any such graph on p vertices and q edges contains at least (n + 1)!/4[q − p − (n − 1)(2 − 3) + 4] different perfect matchings, where is the maximum degree of a vertex in G. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 05C70; 05C40; 05C75