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Min-UnCut


Min-UnCut is the problem of dividing the vertices of a finite undirected graph into two parts so as to minimize the number of edges within the parts. Either part may be empty, and the parts need not have equal size. Equivalently, it minimizes the number of edges whose deletion leaves a bipartite graph. For an unweighted graph G with m edges and at least two vertices, its optimum is m-mc(G), where mc(G) is the maxcut size. A triangle graph has optimum 1, while a bipartite graph has optimum 0.


See also

Bipartite Graph, Cut, Maxcut

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References

Håstad, J.; Huang, S.; Manokaran, R.; O'Donnell, R.; and Wright, J. "Improved NP-Inapproximability for 2-Variable Linear Equations." Theory Comput. 13, 1-51, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4086/toc.2017.v013a019.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Min-UnCut." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Min-UnCut.html

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