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Main Authors: Shi, Lingjuan, Li, Wei, Deng, Kai
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08557
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  • An independent edge set of graph $G$ is a matching, and is maximal if it is not a proper subset of any other matching of $G$. The number of all the maximal matchings of $G$ is denoted by $Ψ(G)$. In this paper, an algorithm to count $Ψ(T)$ for a tree $T$ is given. We show that for any tree $T$ with $n$ vertices, $Ψ(T)\geq\lceil\frac{n}{2}\rceil$, and the tree which obtained the lower bound is characterized.