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Preprint 43-2007
Combinatorial Optimization & Graph Algorithms group (COGA-Preprints)- Title
- Most Balanced Minimum Cuts and Partially Ordered Knapsack
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- submitted
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not available
- Keywords
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Balanced Cuts, Partially Ordered Knapsack, Approximation Algorithms
- Abstract
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We consider the problem of finding most balanced cuts among minimum st-edge cuts and minimum st-vertex cuts, for given vertices s and t, according to different balance criteria. For edge cuts [S,V(G)-S] we seek to maximize min{|S|,|V(G)-S|}. For vertex cuts C of G we consider the objectives of (i) maximizing min{|S|,|T|}, where {S,T} is a partition of V(G)-C with s in S, t in T and [S,T] empty, (ii) minimizing the order of the largest component of G-C, and (iii) maximizing the order of the smallest component of G-C. All of these problems are shown to be NP-hard. We give a PTAS for the edge cut variant and for (i). We give a 2-approximation for (ii), and show that no non-trivial approximation exists for (iii) unless P=NP. To prove these results we show that we can partition the vertices of G, and define a partial order on the subsets of the partition, such that ideals of the partial order correspond bijectively to minimum st-cuts of G. This shows that the problems are closely related to Uniform Partially Ordered Knapsack (UPOK), a variant of POK where element utilities are equal to element weights. Our PTAS is also a PTAS for special types of UPOK instances.
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