LEADER 02020nam 2200337z- 450 001 9910582201003321 005 20231214133046.0 010 $a3-7983-3253-3 035 $a(CKB)5700000000101233 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/87653 035 $a(EXLCZ)995700000000101233 100 $a20202207d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMatching minors in bipartite graphs 210 $aBerlin$cUniversitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Berlin$d2022 215 $a1 electronic resource (476 p.) 225 1 $aFoundations of computing 311 08$a3-7983-3252-5 330 $aIn this thesis we adapt fundamental parts of the Graph Minors series of Robertson and Seymour for the study of matching minors and investigate a connection to the study of directed graphs. We develope matching theoretic to established results of graph minor theory: We characterise the existence of a cross over a conformal cycle by means of a topological property. Furthermore, we develope a theory for perfect matching width, a width parameter for graphs with perfect matchings introduced by Norin. here we show that the disjoint alternating paths problem can be solved in polynomial time on graphs of bounded width. Moreover, we show that every bipartite graph with high perfect matching width must contain a large grid as a matching minor. Finally, we prove an analogue of the we known Flat Wall theorem and provide a qualitative description of all bipartite graphs which exclude a fixed matching minor. 606 $aAlgorithms & data structures$2bicssc 610 $amatching minor; structural graph theory; bipartite; perfect matching 615 7$aAlgorithms & data structures 700 $aWiederrecht$b Sebastian$4auth$01293616 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910582201003321 996 $aMatching minors in bipartite graphs$93022664 997 $aUNINA