Extended cuts

Walid Ben-Ameur, Mohamed Didi Biha

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Abstract

Given a directed graph (Formula presented.) , three positive integers (Formula presented.) , (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.) , and a partition (Formula presented.) of (Formula presented.) such that there are no arcs from (Formula presented.) to (Formula presented.) when (Formula presented.) or (Formula presented.) , the set of direct arcs from (Formula presented.) to (Formula presented.) , (Formula presented.) , is called an (Formula presented.) -extended cut. Given a weight vector (Formula presented.) , we aim to compute a minimum-weight (Formula presented.) -extended cut. Some special vertices may be required to belong to a particular subset (Formula presented.). We study this problem, and for special cases we provide polynomial-time algorithms, linear formulations and polyhedral descriptions. We also review some NP-hard variants.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1034-1044
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Combinatorial Optimization
Volume31
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2016

Keywords

  • Compact formulation
  • Cut
  • Graph partitioning
  • Polyhedra

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