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In the MULTIWAY CUT problem, the input is an undirected graph G = (V, E) and a set of term...

In the MULTIWAY CUT problem, the input is an undirected graph G = (V, E) and a set of terminal nodes s1; s2,...,skV. The goal is to find the minimum set of edges in E whose removal leaves all terminals in different components.

(a) Show that this problem can be solved exactly in polynomial time when k = 2.


(b) Give an approximation algorithm with ratio at most 2 for the case k = 3.


(c) Design a local search algorithm for multiway cut.

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