Robust Matchings

  • Authors:
  • Refael Hassin;Shlomi Rubinstein

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We consider complete graphs with nonnegative edge weights. A p-matching is a set of p disjoint edges. We prove the existence of a maximal (with respect to inclusion) matching M that contains for any $p\le|M|$ $p$ edges whose total weight is at least ${1\over \sqrt 2}$ of the maximum weight of a p-matching. We use this property to approximate the metric maximum clustering problem with given cluster sizes.