• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.89-97
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• 2007

We study the maximum integer multiflow problem and the minimum multicut problem in a ring network. Both problems in a general network are known to be NP-hard. In this paper, we develop polynomial time algorithms to solve the problems. We also prove that even In a ring network, maximum multiflow is not always integral, which implies that the amount of maximum integer flow does not always reach the minimum capacity of multicut.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.119-123
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• 2009

The minimum multicut problem on a cycle is to find a multicut on an undirected cycle such that the sum of weights is minimized, which is known to be polynomially solvable. This paper shows that there exists a compact polyhedral description of the set of feasible solutions to the problem whose number of variables and constraints is O($\upsilon\kappa$).