Perfect Matchings with Crossings

Oswin Aichholzer, Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Philipp Kindermann, Irene Parada, Rosna Paul*, Daniel Perz, Patrick Schnider, Birgit Vogtenhuber

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Abstract

For sets of n= 2 m points in general position in the plane we consider straight-line drawings of perfect matchings on them. It is well known that such sets admit at least Cm different plane perfect matchings, where Cm is the m-th Catalan number. Generalizing this result we are interested in the number of drawings of perfect matchings which have k crossings. We show the following results. (1) For every k≤164n2-O(nn), any set of n points, n sufficiently large, admits a perfect matching with exactly k crossings. (2) There exist sets of n points where every perfect matching has fewer than 572n2 crossings. (3) The number of perfect matchings with at most k crossings is superexponential in n if k is superlinear in n. (4) Point sets in convex position minimize the number of perfect matchings with at most k crossings for k= 0, 1, 2, and maximize the number of perfect matchings with (n/22) crossings and with (n/22)-1 crossings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCombinatorial Algorithms
EditorsCristina Bazgan, Henning Fernau
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2022
Pages46-59
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-06677-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event33rd International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms - University of Trier, Trier, Germany
Duration: 7 Jun 20229 Jun 2022

Conference

Conference33rd International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms
LocationUniversity of Trier
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityTrier
Period07/06/202209/06/2022
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13270 LNCS
ISSN0302-9743

Keywords

  • Combinatorial geometry
  • Crossings
  • Order types
  • Perfect matchings

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