A uniform sparsest cut is a sparsest cut with demand 1 between each pair of distinct vertices. For a finite undirected graph with vertex
set
of size
and nonnegative capacities
, its optimum is
The denominator counts the unordered pairs separated by the cut. An approximation factor means returning a cut with ratio at most
(Rothvoss 2016). For the unweighted complete
graph
,
every nontrivial cut has ratio
1.