The partial inverse minimum cut problem is to minimally modify the capacities of a digraph such that there exists a minimum cut with respect to the new capacities that contains all arcs of a prespecified set. Orlin showed that the problem is strongly NP-hard if the amount of modification is measured by the weighted L1-norm. We prove that the problem remains hard for the unweighted case and show that the NP-hardness proof of Yang [RAIRO-Oper. Res. 35 (2001) 117-126] for this problem with additional bound constraints is not correct.
Mots clés : partial inverse minimum cut problem
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Gassner, Elisabeth. The partial inverse minimum cut problem with L1-norm is strongly NP-hard. RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Tome 44 (2010) no. 3, pp. 241-249. doi : 10.1051/ro/2010017. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/ro/2010017/
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