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The existence of universally agreed fairest semi-matchings in any given bipartite graph
Theoretical Computer Science ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2018-03-20 , DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2018.03.020
Jian Xu , Soumya Banerjee , Wenjing Rao

In a bipartite graph G=(UV,E) where EU×V, a semi-matching is defined as a set of edges ME, such that each vertex in U is incident with exactly one edge in M. Many previous works focus on the problem of finding the fairest semi-matchings: ones that assign U-vertices with V-vertices as fairly as possible. In these works, fairness is usually measured according to a specific index. In fact, there exist various fairness measures, and they often disagree on the fairness comparison of some semi-matching pairs. In this paper, we prove that there always exists one (or a set of equally fair) semi-matching(s), universally agreed by all the existing fairness measures, to be the fairest among all the semi-matchings of a given bipartite graph. In other words, given that fairness measures disagree on many comparisons between semi-matchings, they nonetheless are all in agreement on the (set of) fairest semi-matching(s) for a given bipartite graph. To prove this, we propose a partially ordered relationship (named Transfer-based Comparison) among the semi-matchings, showing that the greatest elements always exist in such a partially ordered set. We then show that such greatest elements can guarantee to be the fairest ones under the fairness measure of Majorization [1]. This further indicates that such fairest semi-matchings are agreed by all the fairness measures which are compatible with Majorization. To the best knowledge of us, this is true for all existing fairness measures.



中文翻译:

在任何给定的二部图中都存在普遍同意的最公平半匹配

在二部图中 G=üVË 哪里 Ëü×V半匹配定义为一组边中号Ë,使得U中的每个顶点都恰好与M中的一个边入射。先前的许多工作着重于寻找最公平的半匹配的问题:将U顶点分配给V的半匹配-vertices尽可能公平。在这些作品中,公平通常是根据特定指标来衡量的。实际上,存在各种公平性度量,并且它们在某些半匹配对的公平性比较上经常存在分歧。在本文中,我们证明了在所有二分图的所有半匹配中,总是存在一个(或一组同样公平的)半匹配,并且所有现有的公平性度量都普遍认为这是最公平的。 。换句话说,鉴于公平性度量在半匹配之间的许多比较中均存在分歧,因此,对于给定的二分图,它们都在(一组)最公平的半匹配上是一致的。为了证明这一点,我们提出了半匹配之间的部分有序关系(称为基于传输的比较),表明最大的元素始终存在于这样的部分有序集合中。然后,我们证明在专业化[1]的公平性度量下,这样的最大要素可以保证是最公平的要素。这进一步表明,最公平的半匹配被所有与Majorization兼容的公平性措施所同意。就我们所知,所有现有的公平措施都是如此。

更新日期:2018-03-20
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