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The one-way model of quantum computation is an alternative to the circuit model. A one-way computation is driven entirely by successive adaptive measurements of a pre-prepared entangled resource state. For each measurement, only one outcome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Piotr Mitosek , Miriam Backens

Let $G = (VG, AG)$ be a directed graph with a set $S \subseteq VG$ of terminals and nonnegative integer arc capacities $c$. A feasible multiflow is a nonnegative real function $F(P)$ of "flows" on paths $P$ connecting distinct terminals…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Maxim A. Babenko , Alexander V. Karzanov

Cutwidth is one of the classic layout parameters for graphs. It measures how well one can order the vertices of a graph in a linear manner, so that the maximum number of edges between any prefix and its complement suffix is minimized. As…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Michał Pilipczuk , Jean-Florent Raymond , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Marcin Wrochna

We introduce and investigate reroutable flows, a robust version of network flows in which link failures can be mitigated by rerouting the affected flow. Given a capacitated network, a path flow is reroutable if after failure of an arbitrary…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Jannik Matuschke , S. Thomas McCormick , Gianpaolo Oriolo

We consider routing in reconfigurable networks, which is also known as coflow scheduling in the literature. The algorithmic literature generally (perhaps implicitly) assumes that the amount of data to be transferred is large. Thus the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Alexander Lindermayr , Kirk Pruhs , Andréa W. Richa , Tegan Wilson

We give the first almost-linear total time algorithm for deciding if a flow of cost at most $F$ still exists in a directed graph, with edge costs and capacities, undergoing decremental updates, i.e., edge deletions, capacity decreases, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jan van den Brand , Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva

This paper studies a variant of the minimum-cost flow problem in a graph with convex cost function where the demands at the vertices are functions depending on a one-dimensional parameter $\lambda$. We devise two algorithmic approaches for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Per Joachims , Max Klimm , Philipp Warode

In 2022, Chen et al. proposed an algorithm in \cite{main} that solves the min cost flow problem in $m^{1 + o(1)} \log U \log C$ time, where $m$ is the number of edges in the graph, $U$ is an upper bound on capacities and $C$ is an upper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Nithin Kavi

Lov\'{a}sz et al. proved that every $6$-edge-connected graph has a nowhere-zero $3$-flow. In fact, they proved a more technical statement which says that there exists a nowhere zero $3$-flow that extends the flow prescribed on the incident…

Let $\phi_c(G)$ be the circular flow number of a bridgeless graph $G$. In [Edge-colorings and circular flow numbers of regular graphs, J. Graph Theory 79 (2015) 1-7] it was proved that, for every $t \geq 1$, $G$ is a bridgeless…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Davide Mattiolo , Eckhard Steffen

We investigate how the underlying graph of a network supports a flow between a source node and a destination node and propose to compute the expected number of nodes and links that contribute to transferring items in random graphs. Since…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Zhihao Qiu , Xinhan Liu , Rogier Noldus , Piet Van Mieghem

A $d$-dimensional nowhere-zero $r$-flow on a graph $G$, an $(r,d)$-NZF from now on, is a flow where the value on each edge is an element of $\mathbb{R}^d$ whose (Euclidean) norm lies in the interval $[1,r-1]$. Such a notion is a natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Davide Mattiolo , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Jozef Rajník , Gloria Tabarelli

The \emph{minimum leaf number} $\hbox{ml} (G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is defined as the minimum number of leaves of the spanning trees of $G$. We present new results concerning the minimum leaf number of cubic graphs: we show that if $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Jan Goedgebeur , Kenta Ozeki , Nico Van Cleemput , Gábor Wiener

Erd\H{o}s, Pach, Pollack, and Tuza [\textit{J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 47(1) (1989), 73-79}] proved that the diameter of a connected $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree $\delta$ is at most $\frac{3n}{\delta+1}+O(1)$. The oriented diameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Garner Cochran , Zhiyu Wang

Given finitely many connected polygonal obstacles $O_1,\dots,O_k$ in the plane and a set $P$ of points in general position and not in any obstacle, the {\em visibility graph} of $P$ with obstacles $O_1,\dots,O_k$ is the (geometric) graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-08 John Gimbel , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Pavel Valtr

Occlusions between consecutive frames have long posed a significant challenge in optical flow estimation. The inherent ambiguity introduced by occlusions directly violates the brightness constancy constraint and considerably hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shangkun Sun , Jiaming Liu , Thomas H. Li , Huaxia Li , Guoqing Liu , Wei Gao

We consider the standard first passage percolation model in the rescaled graph $\mathbb{Z}^d/n$ for $d\geq2$ and a domain $\Omega$ of boundary $\Gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Let $\Gamma ^1$ and $\Gamma ^2$ be two disjoint open subsets of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-28 Raphaël Cerf , Marie Théret

In this paper, we study fractional multiflows in undirected graphs. A fractional multiflow in a graph G with a node subset T, called terminals, is a collection of weighted paths with ends in T such that the total weights of paths traversing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-06-03 N. Vanetik

In this paper, we discuss the maximum flow problem in the two-party communication model, where two parties, each holding a subset of edges on a common vertex set, aim to compute the maximum flow of the union graph with minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hossein Gholizadeh , Yonggang Jiang

The quantum max-flow min-cut conjecture relates the rank of a tensor network to the minimum cut in the case that all tensors in the network are identical\cite{mfmc1}. This conjecture was shown to be false in Ref. \onlinecite{mfmc2} by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 M. B. Hastings