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Matching theory is one of the classical and most important topics in combinatorial theory and optimization. All the graphs in this chapter are undirected. Recall that a matching is a set of pairwise disjoint edges.
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Korte, B., Vygen, J. (2012). Maximum Matchings. In: Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24488-9_10
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