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The max-flow min-cut theorem is a cornerstone result in combinatorial optimization. Calegari et al. (arXiv:0802.3208) initialized the study of quantum max-flow min-cut conjecture, which connects the rank of a tensor network and the min-cut.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nengkun Yu

The classical max-flow min-cut theorem describes transport through certain idealized classical networks. We consider the quantum analog for tensor networks. By associating an integral capacity to each edge and a tensor to each vertex in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Shawn X. Cui , Michael H. Freedman , Or Sattath , Richard Stong , Greg Minton

The \emph{max-flow min-cut theorem} has been recently used in the theory of random tensor networks in quantum information theory, where it is helpful for computing the behavior of important physical quantities, such as the entanglement…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Miao Hu , Ion Nechita

Intrigued by the capacity of random networks, we start by proving a max-flow min-cut theorem that is applicable to any random graph obeying a suitably defined independence-in-cut property. We then show that this property is satisfied by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-30 Rui A. Costa , Joao Barros

We prove a strong version of the Max-Flow Min-Cut theorem for countable networks, namely that in every such network there exist a flow and a cut that are "orthogonal" to each other, in the sense that the flow saturates the cut and is zero…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Ron Aharoni , Eli Berger , Agelos Georgakopoulos , Amitai Perlstein , Philipp Sprüssel

The quantum max-flow quantifies the maximal possible entanglement between two regions of a tensor network state for a fixed graph and fixed bond dimensions. In this work, we calculate the quantum max-flow exactly in the case of the bridge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Fulvio Gesmundo , Vladimir Lysikov , Vincent Steffan

The maximum achievable capacity from source to destination in a network is limited by the min-cut max-flow bound; this serves as a converse limit. In practice, link capacities often fluctuate due to dynamic network conditions. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rivka Gitik , Alejandro Cohen

The capacity (or maximum flow) of an unicast network is known to be equal to the minimum s-t cut capacity due to the max-flow min-cut theorem. If the topology of a network (or link capacities) is dynamically changing or unknown, it is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Yuki Fujii , Tadashi Wadayama

The Max-Flow Min-Cut theorem is the classical duality result for the Max-Flow problem, which considers flow of a single commodity. We study a multiple commodity generalization of Max-Flow in which flows are composed of real-valued k-vectors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Matthew Broussard , Bala Krishnamoorthy

We study the entanglement entropy of a random tensor network (RTN) using tools from free probability theory. Random tensor networks are simple toy models that help the understanding of the entanglement behavior of a boundary region in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Khurshed Fitter , Faedi Loulidi , Ion Nechita

We prove several geometric theorems using tools from the theory of convex optimization. In the Riemannian setting, we prove the max flow-min cut theorem for boundary regions, applied recently to develop a "bit-thread" interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-23 Matthew Headrick , Veronika E. Hubeny

Random tensor networks are a powerful toy model for understanding the entanglement structure of holographic quantum gravity. However, unlike holographic quantum gravity, their entanglement spectra are flat. It has therefore been argued that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Newton Cheng , Cécilia Lancien , Geoff Penington , Michael Walter , Freek Witteveen

We show a deterministic constant-time local algorithm for constructing an approximately maximum flow and minimum fractional cut in multisource-multitarget networks with bounded degrees and bounded edge capacities. Locality means that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Endre Csóka , András Pongrácz

We design quantum compression algorithms for parametric families of tensor network states. We first establish an upper bound on the amount of memory needed to store an arbitrary state from a given state family. The bound is determined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Ge Bai , Yuxiang Yang , Giulio Chiribella

We prove an approximate max-multiflow min-multicut theorem for bounded treewidth graphs. In particular, we show the following: Given a treewidth-$r$ graph, there exists a (fractional) multicommodity flow of value $f$, and a multicut of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Tobias Friedrich , Davis Issac , Nikhil Kumar , Nadym Mallek , Ziena Zeif

Quantum networks will allow to implement communication tasks beyond the reach of their classical counterparts. A pressing and necessary issue for the design of quantum network protocols is the quantification of the rates at which these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Stefan Bäuml , Koji Azuma , Go Kato , David Elkouss

We study the implicit bias of gradient flow (i.e., gradient descent with infinitesimal step size) on linear neural network training. We propose a tensor formulation of neural networks that includes fully-connected, diagonal, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Chulhee Yun , Shankar Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi

Min-entropy sampling gives a bound on the min-entropy of a randomly chosen subset of a string, given a bound on the min-entropy of the whole string. K\"onig and Renner showed a min-entropy sampling theorem that holds relative to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 Jürg Wullschleger

We derive upper and lower bounds on the convergence behavior of certain classes of one-parameter quantum dynamical semigroups. The classes we consider consist of tensor product channels and of channels with commuting Liouvillians. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 Michael J. Kastoryano , David Reeb , Michael M. Wolf

The All-Pairs Min-Cut problem (aka All-Pairs Max-Flow) asks to compute a minimum $s$-$t$ cut (or just its value) for all pairs of vertices $s,t$. We study this problem in directed graphs with unit edge/vertex capacities (corresponding to…

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