science and optimization theory, the max-flow min-cut theorem states that in a flow network, the maximum amount of flow passing from the source to the sink...
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capacity of an s-t cut (i.e., cut severing s from t) in the network, as stated in the max-flow min-cut theorem. The maximum flow problem was first formulated...
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approximate max-flow min-cut theorems concern the relationship between the maximum flow rate (max-flow) and the minimum cut (min-cut) in multi-commodity flow problems...
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generalized by the max-flow min-cut theorem, which is a weighted, edge version, and which in turn is a special case of the strong duality theorem for linear programs...
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side of the cut to the sink side of the cut. As shown in the max-flow min-cut theorem, the weight of this cut equals the maximum amount of flow that can...
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G'_{\infty }} , as follows from the max-flow min-cut theorem. Let ( S , T ) {\displaystyle (S,T)} be a minimum cut. Let A = A S ∪ A T {\displaystyle A=A_{S}\cup...
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approximated by solving a maximum flow problem in a graph (and thus, by the max-flow min-cut theorem, define a minimal cut of the graph). Under most formulations...
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shows a minimum cut: the size of this cut is 2, and there is no cut of size 1 because the graph is bridgeless. The max-flow min-cut theorem proves that the...
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flow, a type of flow studied in combinatorics in which the flow amounts are restricted to a finite set of nonzero values The max-flow min-cut theorem...
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v) equals κ′(u, v). This fact is actually a special case of the max-flow min-cut theorem. The problem of determining whether two vertices in a graph are...
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values without linearising it. This search is often performed using Max-flow min-cut theorem algorithms, linear programming or belief propagation methods. Instead...
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in the theory of flow networks. Thanks to the max-flow min-cut theorem, determining the minimum cut over a graph representing a flow network is equivalent...
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1954 and in a journal in 1956, established the max-flow min-cut theorem. In 1962 they published Flows in Networks with Princeton University Press. According...
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1975. His doctoral dissertation, Matroids, Hypergraphs and the Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem, was supervised by Aubrey William Ingleton. From 1974 to 1976 he...
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Traffic flow (computer networking) Flow graph (disambiguation) Max-flow min-cut theorem Oriented matroid Shortest path problem Nowhere-zero flow A.V. Goldberg...
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König's theorem Menger's theorem (1927) The max-flow min-cut theorem (Ford–Fulkerson algorithm) The Birkhoff–Von Neumann theorem (1946) Dilworth's theorem. In...
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removal of few edges can be proven using the max-flow min-cut theorem from the theory of network flows. Minimum vertex degree gives a trivial upper bound...
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mathematics. This page is a list of network theory topics. Max flow min cut theorem Menger's theorem Metcalfe's law Centrality Betweenness centrality Closeness...
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Combinatorial Implications of Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem, 4.6. Linear Programming Interpretation of Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem". Combinatorial Optimization:...
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Karger's algorithm (redirect from Karger's randomize min-cut algorithm)
{\displaystyle s} - t {\displaystyle t} cut problem using the max-flow min-cut theorem and a polynomial time algorithm for maximum flow, such as the push-relabel algorithm...
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Graph theory (section Network flow)
applications that have to do with various notions of flows in networks, for example: Max flow min cut theorem Museum guard problem Covering problems in graphs...
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Arrival theorem (queueing theory) Blum's speedup theorem (computational complexity theory) Max flow min cut theorem (graph theory) No free lunch theorem (philosophy...
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Flood fill Graph exploration algorithm Matching (graph theory) Max flow min cut theorem Maximum-cardinality search Shortest path Dijkstra's algorithm Bellman–Ford...
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Dual linear program (section The duality theorems)
}\end{matrix}}} The max-flow min-cut theorem is a special case of the strong duality theorem: flow-maximization is the primal LP, and cut-minimization is...
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Closure problem (section Reduction to maximum flow)
maximized. By the max-flow min-cut theorem, a minimum cut, and the optimal closure derived from it, can be found by solving a maximum flow problem. Alternative...
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{\displaystyle t} . By the max-flow min-cut theorem, T ( s , t ) {\displaystyle T(s,t)} is upper bounded by the minimum capacity of all cuts, which is the sum...
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Ford–Fulkerson algorithm (category Network flow problem)
flows. This proves that the flow we found is maximal. See also Max-flow Min-cut theorem. If the graph G ( V , E ) {\displaystyle G(V,E)} has multiple sources...
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equation Max-flow min-cut theorem Network theory S.H. Waldrip, R.K. Niven, M. Abel, M. Schlegel (2016), Maximum entropy analysis of hydraulic pipe flow networks...
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Oriented matroid (redirect from Folkman–Lawrence topological representation theorem)
Many results—Carathéodory's theorem, Helly's theorem, Radon's theorem, the Hahn–Banach theorem, the Krein–Milman theorem, the lemma of Farkas—can be formulated...
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analogues of the max-flow min-cut theorem for undirected multi-commodity flow problems. The ratio of the maximum flow to the minimum cut, in such problems...
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