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Counting the Number of Perfect Matchings in K5-Free Graphs

Published: 11 June 2014 Publication History

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Counting the number of perfect matchings in arbitrary graphs is a sharpP-complete problem. However, for some restricted classes of graphs the problem can be solved efficiently. In the case of planar graphs, and even for K_{3, 3}-free graphs, Vazirani showed that it is in NC^2. The technique there is to compute a Pfaffian orientation of a graph. In the case of K_5-free graphs, this technique will not work because some K_5-free graphs do not have a Pfaffian orientation. We circumvent this problem and show that the number of perfect matchings in K_5-free graphs can be computed in polynomial time and we describe a circuit construction in TC2.

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CCC '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 29th Conference on Computational Complexity
June 2014
332 pages
ISBN:9781479936267

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IEEE Computer Society

United States

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Published: 11 June 2014

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  • (2019)On the construction of graphs with a planar bipartite double cover from boolean formulas and its application to counting satisfying solutionsTheoretical Computer Science10.1016/j.tcs.2017.11.009719:C(21-45)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2019

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