Robust Matchings and Maximum Clustering

  • Authors:
  • Refael Hassin;Shlomi Rubinstein

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SWAT '00 Proceedings of the 7th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory
  • Year:
  • 2000

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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 ≤ |M| p edges whose total weight is at least 1/√2 of the maximum weight of a p-matching. We use this property to approximate graph partitioning problems in which the sizes of the parts of the partitioning are given.