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Stoer-Wagner Algorithm

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The Stoer-Wagner algorithm is a recursive algorithm that solves the minimum cut problem in undirected weighted graphs with non-negative weights, proposed by Mechthild Stoer and Frank Wagner in 1995. It works by repeatedly shrinking the graph, merging its most tightly connected vertices in each phase until only two combined vertex sets remain, finding a minimum cut between two chosen vertices at each phase and keeping the lightest such cut found across all phases as the global minimum cut.

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Time Complexity
Time Complexity (category)
Cubic Time -- O(n^3) 1
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Stoer-Wagner algorithm (Wikipedia)
  • Uses Design Technique: Recursion, Lead
    In graph theory, the Stoer-Wagner algorithm is a recursive algorithm to solve the minimum cut problem in undirected weighted graphs with non-negative weights.
  • In Field: Algorithms and Complexity Theory, Lead sentence
    Stoer-Wagner algorithm is a recursive algorithm to solve the minimum cut problem in undirected weighted graphs with non-negative weights.
  • In Group: Network Flow and Matching Algorithms, Lead
    In graph theory, the Stoer-Wagner algorithm is a recursive algorithm to solve the minimum cut problem in undirected weighted graphs with non-negative weights.
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