A Short Note on Relevant Cuts

Abstract

The set of relevant cuts in a graph is the union of all minimum weight bases of the cut space. A cut is relevant if and only if it is the a minimum weight cut between two distinct vertices. Moreover, we give a characterization in terms of Picard-Queyranne Directed Acyclic Graphs that can be used to accelerate the enumeration of the relevant cuts. Finally, we perform an experimental evaluation by comparing with state-of-the-art algorithms.