We consider a minimum-weight perfect matching problem on the line and establish a “bottom-up” recursion relation for weights of partial minimum-weight matchings. Bibliography: 11 titles.
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Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 390, 2011, pp. 52-68.
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Delon, J., Salomon, J. & Sobolevski, A. Minimum—weight perfect matching for nonintrinsic distances on the line. J Math Sci 181, 782–791 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-012-0714-6
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