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All-Pairs Minimum Cut (APMC) is a fundamental graph problem that asks to find a minimum $s,t$-cut for every pair of vertices $s,t$. A recent line of work on fast algorithms for APMC has culminated with a reduction of APMC to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yotam Kenneth-Mordoch , Robert Krauthgamer

We review the notion of relative Dolbeault cohomology and prove that it is canonically isomorphic with the local (relative) cohomology of A. Grothendieck and M. Sato with coefficients in the sheaf of holomorphic forms. We deal with this…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Tatsuo Suwa

Min-cut clustering, based on minimizing one of two heuristic cost-functions proposed by Shi and Malik, has spawned tremendous research, both analytic and algorithmic, in the graph partitioning and image segmentation communities over the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-11-27 Anil Raj , Chris H. Wiggins

The embedding of finite metrics in $\ell_1$ has become a fundamental tool for both combinatorial optimization and large-scale data analysis. One important application is to network flow problems in which there is close relation between…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-21 David Bryant , Paul F. Tupper

We present new min-max relations in digraphs between the number of paths satisfying certain conditions and the order of the corresponding cuts. We define these objects in order to capture, in the context of solving the half-integral linkage…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Victor Campos , Jonas Costa , Raul Lopes , Ignasi Sau

Functional graphs (FGs) model the graph structures used to analyse the behaviour of functions from a discrete set to itself. In turn, such functions are used to study real complex phenomena evolving in time. As the systems involved can be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-05 François Doré , Enrico Formenti , Antonio E. Porreca , Sara Riva

Motivated by the appearance of fractional powers of line bundles in studies of vector-like spectra in 4d F-theory compactifications, we analyze the structure and origin of these bundles. Fractional powers of line bundles are also known as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Martin Bies , Mirjam Cvetič , Ron Donagi , Muyang Liu , Marielle Ong

Sheaves and sheaf cohomology are powerful tools in computational topology, greatly generalizing persistent homology. We develop an algorithm for simplifying the computation of cellular sheaf cohomology via (discrete) Morse-theoretic…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Justin Curry , Robert Ghrist , Vidit Nanda

Given a flow network with variable suppliers and fixed consumers, the minimax flow problem consists in minimizing the maximum flow between nodes, subject to flow conservation and capacity constraints. We solve this problem over acyclic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Marco Coraggio , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo , Mario di Bernardo

We follow the same technics we used before in \cite{AZ} of extending knot Floer homology to embedded graphs in a 3-manifold, by using the Kauffman topological invariant of embedded graphs by associating family of links and knots to a such…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Ahmad Zainy Al-Yasry

Our ability to control a whole network can be achieved via a small set of driver nodes. While the minimum number of driver nodes needed for control is fixed in a given network, there are multiple choices for the driver node set. A quantity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-15 Xiaoyao Yu , Yongqing Liang , Xiaomeng Wang , Tao Jia

`Double edge swaps' transform one graph into another while preserving the graph's degree sequence, and have thus been used in a number of popular Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling techniques. However, while double edge-swaps can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Joel Nishimura

We consider the problem of multicommodity flows in outerplanar graphs. Okamura and Seymour showed that the cut-condition is sufficient for routing demands in outerplanar graphs. We consider the unsplittable version of the problem and prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 David Alemán-Espinosa , Nikhil Kumar

In Chapter 1 we fully characterise pairs of finite graphs which form a gap in the full homomorphism order. This leads to a simple proof of the existence of generalised duality pairs. We also discuss how such results can be carried to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Yangjing Long

In this paper, we generalize the minimum flow decomposition problem (MFD) to incorporate uncertain edge capacities and tackle it from the perspective of robust optimization. In the classical flow decomposition problem, a network flow is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Moritz Stinzendörfer , Philine Schiewe , Fabricio Oliveira

We have developed different network approaches to analyze complex patterns of frictional interfaces (contact area developments). Network theory is a fundamental tool for the modern understanding of complex systems in which, by a simple…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 H. O. Ghaffari , R. P. Young

When analyzing complex networks a key target is to uncover their modular structure, which means searching for a family of modules, namely node subsets spanning each a subnetwork more densely connected than the average. This work proposes a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Giovanni Rossi

This paper presents a novel meta algorithm, Partition-Merge (PM), which takes existing centralized algorithms for graph computation and makes them distributed and faster. In a nutshell, PM divides the graph into small subgraphs using our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Vincent Blondel , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli , Devavrat Shah

Segmenting thin structures like infrastructure cracks and anatomical vessels is a task hampered by topology-sensitive geometry, high annotation costs, and poor generalization across domains. Existing methods address these challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Babak Asadi , Peiyang Wu , Mani Golparvar-Fard , Viraj Shah , Ramez Hajj

We study a network utility maximization (NUM) decomposition in which the set of flow rates is grouped by source-destination pairs. We develop theorems for both single-path and multipath cases, which relate an arbitrary NUM problem involving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Riten Gupta , Lieven Vandenberghe , Mario Gerla