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Applications of Sinkhorn Balancing: The Monomer-Dimer Problem

Published

Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl, Francis Sullivan

Abstract

We describe a general Monte Carlo technique based on work of Knuth for estimating the size of trees in backtrack algorithms. This method, based on importance sampling, is used to estimate the number of partial and complete matchings in a bipartite graph. Applications to the dimmer covering problem and the monomer-dimer problem are detailed.
Citation
Stochastic Processes and Functional Analyses
Volume
238
Pub Type
Journals

Citation

Beichl, I. and Sullivan, F. (2004), Applications of Sinkhorn Balancing: The Monomer-Dimer Problem, Stochastic Processes and Functional Analyses (Accessed December 4, 2023)

Created January 29, 2004, Updated October 12, 2021