Friday, February 26, 2010

Homework 3 Question 2

Hi,

For homework 3 question 2, you may assume the graph is connected (aka. k>0 and the algorithm can always find some edge to contract). Also, part 5 of that question should have "at most $O(|V|^{2\alpha})$" instead of $\Omega(|V|^{2\alpha})$.

Sorry about this.

Richard

1 comment:

  1. I suppose this also affects the second part of the question, i.e.

    How many times must we iterate the algorithm to be sure that it outputs a min-cut with probability at least 2/3?

    So would this second question become a probability of at most 2/3? And wouldn't this be a silly question to ask then?

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