On flips in planar matchings
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F21%3A10419981" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/21:10419981 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2020.10.018" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.dam.2020.10.018</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On flips in planar matchings
Original language description
In this paper we investigate the structure of flip graphs on non-crossing perfect matchings in the plane. Specifically, consider all non-crossing straight-line perfect matchings on a set of 2n points that are placed equidistantly on the unit circle. A flip operation on such a matching replaces two matching edges that span an empty quadrilateral with the other two edges of the quadrilateral, and the flip is called centered if the quadrilateral contains the center of the unit circle. The graph Gn has those matchings as vertices, and an edge between any two matchings that differ in a flip, and it is known to have many interesting properties. In this paper we focus on the spanning subgraph Hn of Gn obtained by taking all edges that correspond to centered flips, omitting edges that correspond to non-centered flips. We show that the graph Hn is connected for odd n, but has exponentially many small connected components for even n, which we characterize and count via Catalan and generalized Narayana numbers. For odd n, we also prove that the diameter of Hn is linear in n. Furthermore, we determine the minimum and maximum degree of Hn for all n, and characterize and count the corresponding vertices. Our results imply the non-existence of certain rainbow cycles in Gn, and they resolve several open questions and conjectures raised in a recent paper by Felsner, Kleist, Mütze, and Sering.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-08554S" target="_blank" >GA19-08554S: Structures and algorithms in highly symmetric graphs</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Discrete Applied Mathematics
ISSN
0166-218X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
289
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
427-445
UT code for WoS article
000596823800037
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85093840376