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== Table of Algorithms ==  
== Table of Algorithms ==  

Revision as of 12:02, 15 February 2023

Description

The goal of maximum cardinality matching is to find a matching with as many edges as possible (equivalently: a matching that covers as many vertices as possible). Here, the graph can be any general graph.

Related Problems

Subproblem: Bipartite Graph MCM

Related: Planar Bipartite Graph Perfect Matching

Parameters

V: number of vertices

E: number of edges

Table of Algorithms

Name Year Time Space Approximation Factor Model Reference
Micali and Vazirani 1980 $O(V^{0.5} E)$ $O(V)$ Deterministic Time & Space
Blum 1990 $O((V^{0.5})$E) $O(E)$ auxiliary?? Exact Deterministic Time
Gabow; Tarjan 1991 $O((V^{0.5})$E) $O(E)$ auxiliary? Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Mucha, Sankowski (general) 2004 $O(V^{2.{37}6})$ $O(V^{2})$?? Exact Randomized Time

Time Complexity graph

Maximum Cardinality Matching - General Graph MCM - Time.png

Space Complexity graph

Maximum Cardinality Matching - General Graph MCM - Space.png

Pareto Decades graph

Maximum Cardinality Matching - General Graph MCM - Pareto Frontier.png