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<metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><dc:title>Connected matchings</dc:title><dc:creator>Aichholzer,	Oswin	(Avtor)
	</dc:creator><dc:creator>Cabello,	Sergio	(Avtor)
	</dc:creator><dc:creator>Mészáros,	Viola	(Avtor)
	</dc:creator><dc:creator>Schnider,	Patrick	(Avtor)
	</dc:creator><dc:creator>Soukup,	Jan	(Avtor)
	</dc:creator><dc:subject>point sets</dc:subject><dc:subject>matchings for point sets</dc:subject><dc:subject>intersection graph</dc:subject><dc:description>We show that each set of $n\ge 2$ points in the plane in general position has a straight-line matching with at least $(5n+1)/27$ edges whose segments form a connected set, and such a matching can be computed in $O(n \log n)$ time. As an upper bound, we show that for some planar point sets in general position the largest matching whose segments form a connected set has $\lceil \frac{n-1}{3}\rceil$ edges. We also consider a colored version, where each edge of the matching should connect points with different colors.</dc:description><dc:date>2025</dc:date><dc:date>2025-10-20 11:58:42</dc:date><dc:type>Neznano</dc:type><dc:identifier>23895</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>UDK: 519.17:004</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>ISSN pri članku: 0925-7721</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>DOI: 10.1016/j.comgeo.2025.102174</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>COBISS_ID: 228691203</dc:identifier><dc:language>sl</dc:language></metadata>
