Exact Matching and the Top-k Perfect Matching Problem
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The aim of this note is to provide a reduction of the Exact Matching problem to the Top-k Perfect Matching Problem. Together with earlier work by El Maalouly, this shows that the two problems are polynomial-time equivalent. The Exact Matching Problem is a well-known 40 years old problem for which a randomized, but no deterministic poly-time algorithm has been discovered. The Top-k Perfect Matching Problem is the problem of finding a perfect matching which maximizes the total weight of the k heaviest edges contained in it.
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