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Max-Flow on Regular Spaces

Combinatorics 2012-06-25 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The max-flow and max-coflow problem on directed graphs is studied in the common generalization to regular spaces, i.e., to kernels or row spaces of totally unimodular matrices. Exhibiting a submodular structure of the family of paths within this model we generalize the Edmonds-Karp variant of the classical Ford-Fulkerson method and show that the number of augmentations is quadratically bounded if augmentations are chosen along shortest possible augmenting paths.

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@article{arxiv.1206.5167,
  title  = {Max-Flow on Regular Spaces},
  author = {Ulrich Faigle and Walter Kern and Britta Peis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5167},
  year   = {2012}
}
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