Let B(n, g) be the class of bicyclic graphs on n vertices with girth g. In this paper, the graphs in B(n, g) with the largest signless Laplacian spectral radius are characterized.

In this paper, we investigate how the smallest signless Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph behaves when the graph is perturbed by deleting a vertex, subdividing edges or moving edges.

This paper addresses the choice of an optimal smoothing parameter for local polynomial matching. A version of Empirical Bias Bandwidth Selection (EBBS) proposed by Ruppert (1997) is applied to account for the MSE computation of the matching estimator. Thereby, an estimator for the large sample variance of the local polynomial matching estimator is also provided. A Monte Carlo study indicates be...

We study uncoordinated matching markets with additional local constraints that capture, e.g., restricted information, visibility, or externalities in markets. Each agent is a node in a fixed matching network and strives to be matched to another agent. Each agent has a complete preference list over all other agents it can be matched with. However, depending on the constraints and the current sta...

We consider the approximability of three recently introduced pattern matching problems which have been shown to be NP-hard. Given two strings as input, the first problem is to find the longest common parameterised subsequence between two strings. The second is a maximisation variant of generalised function matching and the third is a a maximisation variant of generalised parameterised matching....

We study various versions of the univariate and multivariate matching and rook polynomials. We show that there is most general multivariate matching polynomial, which is, up the some simple substitutions and multiplication with a prefactor, the original multivariate matching polynomial introduced by C. Heilmann and E. Lieb. We follow here a line of investigation which was very successfully purs...

Let B(n, g) be the class of bicyclic graphs on n vertices with girth g. In this paper, the graphs in B(n, g) with the largest signless Laplacian spectral radius are characterized.

In this paper, we consider the problem of finding a maximum weight 2-matching containing no cycle of length at most three in a weighted simple graph, which we call the weighted trianglefree 2-matching problem. Although the polynomial solvability of this problem is still open in general graphs, a polynomial-time algorithm is given by Hartvigsen and Li for the problem in subcubic graphs, i.e., gr...

As far as we know, for most polynomially solvable network optimization problems, their inverse problems under l1 or l∞ norm have been studied, except the inverse maximum-weight matching problem in non-bipartite networks. In this paper we discuss the inverse problem of maximum-weight perfect matching in a non-bipartite network under l1 and l∞ norms. It has been proved that the inverse maximum-we...

We define and consider k-distant crossings and nestings for matchings and set partitions, which are a variation of crossings and nestings in which the distance between vertices is important. By modifying an involution of Kasraoui and Zeng (Electronic J. Combinatorics 2006, research paper 33), we show that the joint distribution of k-distant crossings and nestings is symmetric. We also study the...