The complexity of the Perfect Matching-Cut problem
Résumé
Perfect Matching-Cut is the problem of deciding whether a graph has a perfect matching that is an edge cut. We show that this problem is $NP$-complete for planar graphs with maximum degree four, for planar graphs with girth five, for bipartite five-regular graphs, for graphs of diameter three and for bipartite graphs of diameter four. We show that there exist polynomial time algorithms for the following classes of graphs: claw-free, $P_5$-free, diameter two, bipartite with diameter three, quadrangulated and graphs with bounded tree-width.