This chapter is devoted to the problem of finding maximal matchings in arbitrary graphs; the bipartite case was treated in Section 7.2. In contrast to the bipartite case, it is not at all easy to reduce the general case to a flow problem. However, we will see that the notion of an augmenting path can be modified appropriately.
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(2008). Matchings. In: Graphs, Networks and Algorithms. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72780-4_13
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