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Number of matchings of even cycles

By doing some calculations on the generating function of matching polynomials of cycles I made the following interesting observation: For all positive integers $n>1$ and $k <n $, the number of ...
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Are all numbers from $1$ to $n!$ the number of perfect matchings of some bipartite graph?

Let $f(G)$ give the number of perfect matchings of a graph $G$. Consider set $\mathcal N_{2n}=\{0,1,2,\dots,n!-1,n!\}$. Consider collection of all $2n$ vertex balanced bipartite graph to be $\...
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How many perfect matchings in a regular bipartite graph?

We have a $d$-regular bipartite graph $G = (X,Y,E)$ with $|X| = |Y| = n$ and $|E| = nd$. What is an upper bound on the number of perfect matchings of $G$?
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