Consider independent fair coin-flips at each site of the lattice Z d. A translation-equivariant matching rule is a perfect matching of heads to tails that commutes with translations of Z d and is given by a deterministic function of the coin-flips. Let Z Φ be the distance from the origin to its partner, under the translation-equivariant matching rule Φ. Holroyd and Peres [9] asked what is the o...

The perfect matching problem is known to be in ¶, in randomized NC, and it is hard for NL. Whether the perfect matching problem is in NC is one of the most prominent open questions in complexity theory regarding parallel computations. Grigoriev and Karpinski [GK87] studied the perfect matching problem for bipartite graphs with polynomially bounded permanent. They showed that for such bipartite ...

Guess-and-determine attack is one of the general attacks on stream ciphers. It is a common cryptanalysis tool for evaluating security of stream ciphers. The effectiveness of this attack is based on the number of unknown bits which will be guessed by the attacker to break the cryptosystem. In this work, we present a relation between the minimum numbers of the guessed bits and uniquely restricted...

This paper considers some classes of graphs which are easily seen to have many perfect matchings. Such graphs can be considered robust with respect to the property of having a perfect matching if under vertex deletions (with some mild restrictions), the resulting subgraph continues to have a perfect matching. It is clear that you can destroy the property of having a perfect matching by deleting...