Abstract
The stable matching problem is one of the central problems of algorithmic game theory. If participants are allowed to have ties, the problem of finding a stable matching of maximum cardinality is an $$\mathcal{NP}$$ -hard problem, even when the ties are of size two. Moreover, in this setting it is UGC-hard to provide an approximation with a constant factor smaller than 4/3. In this paper, we give a tight analysis of an approximation algorithm given by Huang and Kavitha for the maximum cardinality stable matching problem with ties of size two, demonstrating an improved 4/3-approximation factor.
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