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On an obstruction for perfect matchings

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Steffens [3] introduced a substructure (called below a “compressed set”) which prevents a graph from having a perfect matching, and proved that a countable graph possesses a perfect matching if and only if it does not contain such a substructure. In this paper we study some properties of compressed sets.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Ron Aharoni

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Dedicated to Paul Erdős on his seventieth birthday

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Aharoni, R. On an obstruction for perfect matchings. Combinatorica 4, 1–6 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02579151

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