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Homework 5
Summer 2011 Anke van Zuylen
This assignment is due on June 16 in class. You are allowed (even encouraged) to
discuss these problems with your fellow classmates. All submitted work, however, must
be written individually without consulting someone else’s solutions or any other source
like the web.
Problem 1: Consider the uncapacitated network flow problem shown in Figure 1. The
label next to each arc is its cost. Solve the problem using the network simplex algorithm.
Start with the tree indicated by the dashed arcs in the figure.
1
2 3 6
0 5 2
2 1
0 3
8 1
2 1
3 2
0
1 4
2 1 4 7 5
P
i k uik − bi
0
uij i, j
cij P
j k ujk − bj
Problem 4: (i) Show that the node-arc incidence matrix of a directed graph is totally
unimodular (that is, the determinant of every square submatrix has value in {0, ±}).
(ii) Consider the standard LP formulation of the maximum flow problem. Write the
dual LP and then use the duality theorem of LP to prove the max-flow min-cut theorem.
Problem 6: Find the maximum flow from node 1 to node 7 in the network G = (N , E),
where N = {1, . . . , 7}, E = {(1, 2), (1, 3), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (3, 4), (3, 6), (4, 5), (4, 6), (5, 7),
(6, 5), (6, 7)} with arc capacities: u12 = 6, u13 = 7, u23 = 1, u24 = 3, u25 = 4, u34 = 2,
u36 = 5, u45 = 3, u46 = 2, u57 = 7, u65 = 2, u67 = 4. Identify the associated minimal
cut-set.