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Flow Networks (cont)

Flow in a network G=(V,E) … nonnegative f(v,w) for all vertices v,w∈V such that
  • f(v,w)≤capacity for each edge e=(v,w,capacity) ∈ E
  • f(v,w)=0 if no edge between v and w
  • total flow into a vertex = total flow out of a vertex:

    `sum_(x in V) f(x,v) = sum_(y in V) f(v,y)`    for all v ∈ V \ {s,t}
Maximum flow … no other flow from s to t has larger value