We show a fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate \emph{size} of maximum matching of the graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges using $m^{0.5-\Omega_{\epsilon}(1)}$ update time. This is the first polynomial improvement over the long-standing $O(n)$ update time, which can be trivially obtained by periodic recomputation. Thus, we resolve the value version of a major open question of the dynamic graph algorithms literature (see, e.g., [Gupta and Peng FOCS'13], [Bernstein and Stein SODA'16],[Behnezhad and Khanna SODA'22]). Our key technical component is the first sublinear algorithm for $(1,\epsilon n)$-approximate maximum matching with sublinear running time on dense graphs. All previous algorithms suffered a multiplicative approximation factor of at least $1.499$ or assumed that the graph has a very small maximum degree.

翻译：我们提出一种全动态算法，用于维护具有$n$个顶点和$m$条边的图的最大匹配的$(1+\epsilon)$-近似\textit{规模}，其更新时间为$m^{0.5-\Omega_{\epsilon}(1)}$。这是对长期存在的$O(n)$更新时间的首个多项式改进（通过定期重新计算可轻易达到$O(n)$）。因此，我们解决了动态图算法文献中一个主要开放问题的数值版本（参见，例如[Gupta and Peng FOCS'13]，[Bernstein and Stein SODA'16]，[Behnezhad and Khanna SODA'22]）。我们的关键技术组件是第一个在稠密图上具有亚线性运行时间的$(1,\epsilon n)$-近似最大匹配亚线性算法。所有先前算法要么遭受至少$1.499$的乘法近似因子，要么假设图具有非常小的最大度数。