# Deterministic Rounding of Dynamic Fractional Matchings

@inproceedings{Bhattacharya2021DeterministicRO,
title={Deterministic Rounding of Dynamic Fractional Matchings},
author={Sayan Bhattacharya and P{\'e}ter Kiss},
booktitle={ICALP},
year={2021}
}
• Published in ICALP 4 May 2021
• Computer Science
We present a framework for deterministically rounding a dynamic fractional matching. Applying our framework in a black-box manner on top of existing fractional matching algorithms, we derive the following new results: (1) The first deterministic algorithm for maintaining a $(2-\delta)$-approximate maximum matching in a fully dynamic bipartite graph, in arbitrarily small polynomial update time. (2) The first deterministic algorithm for maintaining a $(1+\delta)$-approximate maximum matching in a…
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