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We consider multicommodity flow and cut problems in {\em polymatroidal} networks where there are submodular capacity constraints on the edges incident to a node. Polymatroidal networks were introduced by Lawler and Martel and Hassin in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Chandra Chekuri , Sreeram Kannan , Adnan Raja , Pramod Viswanath

In this work, we consider the dynamic unsplittable flow problem. This variation of the unsplittable flow problem has received little attention so far. The unsplittable flow problem is an NP-hard extension of the multi-commodity flow problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 François Lamothe , Emmanuel Rachelson , Alain Haït , Cédric Baudoin , Jean-Baptiste Dupé

In this paper, we introduce a new framework for approximately solving flow problems in capacitated, undirected graphs and apply it to provide asymptotically faster algorithms for the maximum $s$-$t$ flow and maximum concurrent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Jonathan A. Kelner , Yin Tat Lee , Lorenzo Orecchia , Aaron Sidford

We study the well-established problem of finding an optimal routing of unsplittable flows in a graph. While by now there is an extensive body of work targeting the problem on graph classes such as paths and trees, we aim at using the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Robert Ganian , Mathis Rocton , Daniel Unterberger

Vertex splitting replaces a vertex by two copies and partitions its incident edges amongst the copies. This problem has been studied as a graph editing operation to achieve desired properties with as few splits as possible, most often…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Martin Gronemann , Martin Nöllenburg , Anaïs Villedieu

We propose a new algorithm to obtain max flow for the multicommodity flow. This algorithm utilizes the max-flow min-cut theorem and the well known labeling algorithm due to Ford and Fulkerson [1]. We proceed as follows: We select one…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Dhananjay P. Mehendale

The Multicut problem asks for a minimum cut separating certain pairs of vertices: formally, given a graph $G$ and demand graph $H$ on a set $T\subseteq V(G)$ of terminals, the task is to find a minimum-weight set $C$ of edges of $G$ such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jacob Focke , Florian Hörsch , Shaohua Li , Dániel Marx

Given a set of source-sink pairs, the maximum multiflow problem asks for the maximum total amount of flow that can be feasibly routed between them. The minimum multicut, a dual problem to multiflow, seeks the minimum-cost set of edges whose…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sina Kalantarzadeh , Nikhil Kumar

We study the maximum flow problem in directed H-minor-free graphs where H can be drawn in the plane with one crossing. If a structural decomposition of the graph as a clique-sum of planar graphs and graphs of constant complexity is given,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Erin Chambers , David Eppstein

We consider the capacity problem for wireless networks. Networks are modeled as random unit-disk graphs, and the capacity problem is formulated as one of finding the maximum value of a multicommodity flow. In this paper, we develop a proof…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christina Peraki , Sergio D. Servetto

We show a fast algorithm for determining the set of edges in a planar undirected unweighted graph, whose deletion reduces the maximum flow between two fixed vertices. This is a special case of the max flow vitality problem, that has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Giorgio Ausiello , Paolo G. Franciosa , Isabella Lari , Andrea Ribichini

A graph $G$ is terminal-pairable with respect to a demand multigraph $D$ on the same vertex set as $G$, if there exists edge-disjoint paths joining the end vertices of every demand edge of $D$. In this short note, we improve the upper bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-24 António Girão , Gábor Mészáros

We consider single-sink network flow problems. An instance consists of a capacitated graph (directed or undirected), a sink node $t$ and a set of demands that we want to send to the sink. Here demand $i$ is located at a node $s_i$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-18 F. Bruce Shepherd , Adrian Vetta

We give an algorithm for augmenting the edge connectivity of an undirected graph by using the isolating cuts framework (Li and Panigrahi, FOCS '20). Our algorithm uses poly-logarithmic calls to any max-flow algorithm, which yields a running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Ruoxu Cen , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

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

Given a bidirected ring with capacities and a demand graph, we present an approximation algorithm to the problem of finding the minimum $\alpha$ such that there exists a feasible unsplittable routing of the demands after multiplying each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Johanna Becker , Zsolt Csizmadia , Alexandre Laugier , Jácint Szabó , László Szegö

We consider the problem of finding maximum flows in planar graphs with capacities on both vertices and edges and with multiple sources and sinks. We present three algorithms when the capacities are integers. The first algorithm runs in $O(n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yipu Wang

We show that the multi-commodity max-flow/min-cut gap for series-parallel graphs can be as bad as 2, matching a recent upper bound Chakrabarti, Jaffe, Lee, and Vincent for this class, and resolving one side of a conjecture of Gupta, Newman,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-01 James R. Lee , Prasad Raghavendra

Outerplanar Tur\'an problem has received considerable attention recently. We study the spectral version via $Q$-index. We determine the unique graph that maximizes the $Q$-index among all $n$-vertex connected outerplanar graphs which are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Jin Cai , Leyou Xu , Bo Zhou

We give the first deterministic algorithm that makes sub-quadratic queries to find the global min-cut of a simple graph in the cut query model. Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$, our algorithm makes $\widetilde{O}(n^{5/3})$ queries to compute…

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