Max-flow Min-cut Theorem - Example

Example

The figure on the right is a network having a value of flow of 7. The vertex in white and the vertices in grey form the subsets S and T of an s-t cut, whose cut-set contains the dashed edges. Since the capacity of the s-t cut is 7, which equals to the value of flow, the max-flow min-cut theorem tells us that the value of flow and the capacity of the s-t cut are both optimal in this network.

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