Electrical flows, Laplacian systems, and faster approximation of maximum flow in undirected graphs

We introduce a new approach to computing an approximately maximum s-t flow in a capacitated, undirected graph. This flow is computed by solving a sequence of electrical flow problems. Each electrical flow is given by the solution of a system of linear equations in a Laplacian matrix, and thus may be...

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Main Authors: Christiano, Paul F. (Contributor), Kelner, Jonathan Adam (Contributor), Madry, Aleksander (Contributor), Spielman, Daniel A. (Author), Teng, Shang-Hua (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012-07-18T20:23:57Z.
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