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on sets of vertices of the graph. Instead of obeying Kirchhoff's law, it is a requirement that, for every vertex set, the excess flow (the function mapping the set to its difference between flow in and flow out) can be at most the value given by the submodular function.
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that the total amount of flow into each vertex equals the total amount of flow out, and have minimum total cost. In submodular flow, as well, one is given a
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is a general class of optimization problems that includes as special cases the
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In the classical minimum-cost flow problem, the input is a
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Index

combinatorial optimization
minimum-cost flow problem
matroid intersection
dijoin
directed graph
Jack Edmonds
polynomial time
flow network
Kirchhoff's law
submodular set function
Edmonds, Jack
MR
0460169
Combinatorica
doi
10.1007/BF02579273
MR
0625550
S2CID
43787103
Gabow, Harold N.
doi
10.1109/SFCS.1993.366842
S2CID
32162097


doi
10.1145/335305.335318
MR

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