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networkx.algorithms.matching.maximal_matching

maximal_matching(G)

Find a maximal matching in the graph.

A matching is a subset of edges in which no node occurs more than once. A maximal matching cannot add more edges and still be a matching.

Parameters:G (NetworkX graph) – Undirected graph Returns:matching – A maximal matching of the graph. Return type:set

Notes

The algorithm greedily selects a maximal matching M of the graph G (i.e. no superset of M exists). It runs in \(O(|E|)\) time.