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Matchings, Critical Nodes, and Popular Solutions

Author Telikepalli Kavitha

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Telikepalli Kavitha
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

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  • Kavitha, Telikepalli: Supported by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under project no. RTI4001.

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Telikepalli Kavitha. Matchings, Critical Nodes, and Popular Solutions. In 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 213, pp. 25:1-25:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.25

Abstract

We consider a matching problem in a marriage instance G. Every node has a strict preference order ranking its neighbors. There is a set C of prioritized or critical nodes and we are interested in only those matchings that match as many critical nodes as possible. Such matchings are useful in several applications and we call them critical matchings. A stable matching need not be critical. We consider a well-studied relaxation of stability called popularity. Our goal is to find a popular critical matching, i.e., a weak Condorcet winner within the set of critical matchings where nodes are voters. We show that popular critical matchings always exist in G and min-size/max-size such matchings can be efficiently computed.

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  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • Bipartite graphs
  • Stable matchings
  • LP-duality

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