{"title":"Polynomial algorithm for the k-cut problem","authors":"O. Goldschmidt, D. Hochbaum","doi":"10.1109/SFCS.1988.21960","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The k-cut problem is to find a partition of an edge weighted graph into k nonempty components, such that the total edge weight between components is minimum. This problem is NP-complete for arbitrary k and its version involving fixing a vertex in each component is NP hard even for k=3. A polynomial algorithm for the case of a fixed k is presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":113255,"journal":{"name":"[Proceedings 1988] 29th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"202","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[Proceedings 1988] 29th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SFCS.1988.21960","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The k-cut problem is to find a partition of an edge weighted graph into k nonempty components, such that the total edge weight between components is minimum. This problem is NP-complete for arbitrary k and its version involving fixing a vertex in each component is NP hard even for k=3. A polynomial algorithm for the case of a fixed k is presented.<>