Deterministic and Exact Fully-dynamic Minimum Cut of Superpolylogarithmic Size in Subpolynomial Time

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Main Authors: El-Hayek, Antoine, Henzinger, Monika, Li, Jason
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Published: 2025
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author El-Hayek, Antoine
Henzinger, Monika
Li, Jason
author_facet El-Hayek, Antoine
Henzinger, Monika
Li, Jason
contents We present an exact fully-dynamic minimum cut algorithm that runs in $n^{o(1)}$ deterministic update time when the minimum cut size is at most $2^{Θ(\log^{3/4-c}n)}$ for any $c>0$, improving on the previous algorithm of Jin, Sun, and Thorup (SODA 2024) whose minimum cut size limit is $(\log n)^{o(1)}$. Combined with graph sparsification, we obtain the first $(1+ε)$-approximate fully-dynamic minimum cut algorithm on weighted graphs, for any $ε\ge2^{-Θ(\log^{3/4-c}n)}$, in $n^{o(1)}$ randomized update time. Our main technical contribution is a deterministic local minimum cut algorithm, which replaces the randomized LocalKCut procedure from El-Hayek, Henzinger, and Li (SODA 2025).
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spellingShingle Deterministic and Exact Fully-dynamic Minimum Cut of Superpolylogarithmic Size in Subpolynomial Time
El-Hayek, Antoine
Henzinger, Monika
Li, Jason
Data Structures and Algorithms
We present an exact fully-dynamic minimum cut algorithm that runs in $n^{o(1)}$ deterministic update time when the minimum cut size is at most $2^{Θ(\log^{3/4-c}n)}$ for any $c>0$, improving on the previous algorithm of Jin, Sun, and Thorup (SODA 2024) whose minimum cut size limit is $(\log n)^{o(1)}$. Combined with graph sparsification, we obtain the first $(1+ε)$-approximate fully-dynamic minimum cut algorithm on weighted graphs, for any $ε\ge2^{-Θ(\log^{3/4-c}n)}$, in $n^{o(1)}$ randomized update time. Our main technical contribution is a deterministic local minimum cut algorithm, which replaces the randomized LocalKCut procedure from El-Hayek, Henzinger, and Li (SODA 2025).
title Deterministic and Exact Fully-dynamic Minimum Cut of Superpolylogarithmic Size in Subpolynomial Time
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13105