Vertex-block concentration of maximum matching weight
ID: vertex-block-concentration-of-maximum-matching-weight
Give a graph on labelled vertices independent edge weights in , and let be the maximum total weight of a matching. Put each edge into the block of its lower-numbered endpoint. There are at most independent blocks. Every matching uses at most one edge from any block, since the block's edges share that endpoint. Changing a whole block therefore changes the weight of each fixed matching by at most one. Comparing the old and new maximizing matchings shows the same bound for .
The Doob exposure martingale for these blocks has increments bounded by one, so Azuma's inequality givesThe important feature is grouping independent edge coordinates into vertex-centred blocks. Exposing all edges separately would give a weaker denominator of order on a dense graph. Identical distributions are unnecessary; independence and the common range bound suffice.
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