Canonical decompositions of symmetric submodular systems
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Let E be a finite set, R be the set of real numbers and f:2E-+R be a symmetric submodular function. The pair (E,f) is called a symmetric submodular system. We examine the structures of symmetric submodular systems and provide a decomposition theory of symmetric submodular systems. The theory is a generalization of the decomposition theory of 2-connected graphs developed by Tutte and can be applied to any (symmetric) submodular systems.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Discrete Applied Mathematics
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1980