Planarizing gadgets for perfect matching do not exist

  • Authors:
  • Rohit Gurjar;Arpita Korwar;Jochen Messner;Simon Straub;Thomas Thierauf

  • Affiliations:
  • IIT Kanpur, India;IIT Kanpur, India;Aalen University, Germany;University of Ulm, Germany;Aalen University, Germany

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'12 Proceedings of the 37th international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

To reduce a graph problem to its planar version, a standard technique is to replace crossings in a drawing of the input graph by planarizing gadgets. We show unconditionally that such a reduction is not possible for the perfect matching problem and also extend this to some other problems related to perfect matching. We further show that there is no planarizing gadget for the Hamiltonian cycle problem.