Min-cost-flow preserving bijection between subgraphs and orientations
Combinatorics
2021-12-20 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract
Consider an undirected graph . A subgraph of is a subset of its edges, whilst an orientation of is an assignment of a direction to each edge. Provided with an integer circulation-demand , we show an explicit and efficiently computable bijection between subgraphs of on which a -flow exists and orientations on which a -flow exists. Moreover, given a cost function we can find such a bijection which preserves the -min-cost-flow. In 2013, Kozma and Moran showed, using dimensional methods, that the number of subgraphs -connecting a vertex to a vertex is the same as the number of orientations -connecting to . An application of our result is an efficient, bijective proof of this fact.
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@article{arxiv.2112.09250,
title = {Min-cost-flow preserving bijection between subgraphs and orientations},
author = {Izhak Elmaleh and Ohad N. Feldheim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.09250},
year = {2021}
}
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5 pages