Popular Matching in Roommates Setting is NP-hard
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An input to the Popular Matching problem, in the roommates setting, consists of a graph G and each vertex ranks its neighbors in strict order, known as its preference. In the Popular Matching problem the objective is to test whether there exists a matching M^ such that there is no matching M where more people are happier with M than with M^. In this paper we settle the computational complexity of the Popular Matching problem in the roommates setting by showing that the problem is NP-complete. Thus, we resolve an open question that has been repeatedly, explicitly asked over the last decade.
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