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Approximate max-integral-flow/min-multicut theorems. (English) Zbl 1192.90236

Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM symposium on theory of computing (STOC 2004), Chicago, IL, USA, June 13 - 15, 2004. New York, NY: ACM Press (ISBN 1-58113-852-0). 539-545, electronic only (2004).

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90C35 Programming involving graphs or networks
05C85 Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects)
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