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OrderedCuts: A new approach for computing Gomory-Hu tree (2208.02000v2)

Published 3 Aug 2022 in cs.DS

Abstract: The Gomory-Hu tree, or a cut tree, is a classic data structure that stores minimum $s$-$t$ cuts of an undirected weighted graph for all pairs of nodes $(s,t)$. We propose a new approach for computing the cut tree based on a reduction to the problem that we call OrderedCuts. Given a sequence of nodes $s,v_1,\ldots,v_\ell$, its goal is to compute minimum ${s,v_1,\ldots,v_{i-1}}$-$v_i$ cuts for all $i\in[\ell]$. We show that the cut tree can be computed by $\tilde O(1)$ calls to OrderedCuts. We also establish new results for OrderedCuts that may be of independent interest. First, we prove that all $\ell$ cuts can be stored compactly with $O(n)$ space in a data structure that we call an OC tree. We define a weaker version of this structure that we call depth-1 OC tree, and show that it is sufficient for constructing the cut tree. Second, we prove results that allow divide-and-conquer algorithms for computing OC tree. We argue that the existence of divide-and-conquer algorithms makes our new approach a good candidate for a practical implementation.

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