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Matching cuts and immune high-girth graph packages

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opg37364_matching_cuts

by hao jia · Sep 8, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

combinatoricsexpander-graphsgraph-theorymatching-cutsresearch-paper

This module fixes finite simple-graph conventions for the cited paper. A matching cut is determined by a nonempty proper vertex shore and requires every vertex to have at most one neighbor across the resulting bipartition. An immune graph has no such cut.

A simple cycle is a cyclic list of at least three distinct vertices. Girth at least ggg means every simple cycle has length at least ggg, with forests satisfying every threshold. Connectedness uses nonempty graph reachability, bipartiteness uses a Boolean side assignment, and exact regularity counts each neighbor set.

A perfect matching is represented by an adjacent involution on vertices. The combined package requires connectedness, bipartiteness, degree fourteen, the girth bound, absence of matching cuts, and a perfect matching.

Definition code
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
import Mathlib.Logic.Relation
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card

namespace OPG37364

universe u

/-- A simple cycle encoded by a cyclic list of distinct vertices. -/
def IsCycleList {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) (vs : List V) : Prop :=
  ∃ x y : V, ∃ middle : List V,
    vs = x :: (middle ++ [y]) ∧ 3 ≤ vs.length ∧
    vs.Nodup ∧ vs.Chain' G.Adj ∧ G.Adj y x

/-- Every simple cycle has length at least `g`; forests satisfy this for every
`g`. -/
def HasGirthAtLeast {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) (g : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ vs : List V, IsCycleList G vs → g ≤ vs.length

/-- Boolean bipartiteness witness. -/
def IsBipartite {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) : Prop :=
  ∃ side : V → Bool, ∀ ⦃u v : V⦄, G.Adj u v → side u ≠ side v

/-- Nonempty connectedness under graph reachability. -/
def IsConnected {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) : Prop :=
  Nonempty V ∧ ∀ u v : V, Relation.ReflTransGen G.Adj u v

/-- A nontrivial shore `A` defines a matching cut when every vertex has at
most one neighbor across the cut. -/
def IsMatchingCut {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) (A : Set V) : Prop :=
  A.Nonempty ∧ Aᶜ.Nonempty ∧
  ∀ ⦃v x y : V⦄,
    G.Adj v x → ((v ∈ A ∧ x ∉ A) ∨ (v ∉ A ∧ x ∈ A)) →
    G.Adj v y → ((v ∈ A ∧ y ∉ A) ∨ (v ∉ A ∧ y ∈ A)) → x = y

def HasMatchingCut {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) : Prop :=
  ∃ A : Set V, IsMatchingCut G A

/-- Every vertex has exactly `d` neighbors. -/
def IsRegularOfDegree {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) (d : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ v : V, (G.neighborSet v).encard = d

/-- A perfect matching represented by a fixed-point-free adjacent involution.
Fixed-point-freeness follows from looplessness and adjacency. -/
def HasPerfectMatching {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) : Prop :=
  ∃ mate : V → V,
    (∀ v : V, G.Adj v (mate v)) ∧ Function.Involutive mate

/-- The graph package asserted by Lemma 5 of Feghali--Lucke--Paulusma--Ries. -/
def IsImmuneHighGirthPackage {V : Type u} (G : SimpleGraph V) (g : ℕ) : Prop :=
  IsConnected G ∧ IsBipartite G ∧ IsRegularOfDegree G 14 ∧
  HasGirthAtLeast G g ∧ ¬ HasMatchingCut G ∧ HasPerfectMatching G

end OPG37364
Source
Feghali--Lucke--Paulusma--Ries, Matching Cuts in Graphs of High Girth and H-Free Graphs, Algorithmica 87 (2025), 1199-1221, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-025-01318-8, Section 2 and Lemma 5
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · gpt-5.6-luna

IsCycleList. For a simple graph G on a vertex type V and a list vs of vertices, vs is a cycle list if there exist vertices x and y and a list middle such that vs consists of x followed by middle and then y, vs has length at least 3, its entries are pairwise distinct, every consecutive pair is adjacent in G, and y is adjacent to x. HasGirthAtLeast. For a natural number g, every cycle list vs in G has length at least g; if G has no cycle lists, this condition holds vacuously. IsBipartite. There exists a function side assigning each vertex one of the two Boolean values such that adjacent vertices receive different values. IsConnected. V is nonempty, and for every vertices u and v there is a finite graph walk from u to v, allowing a walk of length zero. IsMatchingCut. A subset A of V is nonempty, its complement V ∖ A is nonempty, and for every vertex v, any two neighbors x and y of v that lie on the opposite side of the partition determined by A are equal. HasMatchingCut. There exists a subset A that is a matching cut. IsRegularOfDegree. Every vertex v has a neighbor set of cardinality exactly d, where d is a natural number. HasPerfectMatching. There exists a function mate from V to V such that every vertex v is adjacent to mate(v) and mate(mate(v)) = v. Since the graph has no loops, each chosen mate is distinct from its vertex. IsImmuneHighGirthPackage. G is connected, bipartite, regular of degree 14, has girth at least g, has no matching cut, and has a perfect matching, with each of these terms having the meanings given above.

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  • Endorsed by Shuze Chen · Sep 8, 2026

  • Endorsed by hao jia · Sep 8, 2026

    Confirmed by the mission captain (proposal self-audit).

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