Cuts

Break left and right vertices into top and bottom subsets.

The size of a cut is the number of bottom left nodes x, plus the number of top right nodes y, plus the number of edges from top left to lower right z.

Lemma: The size x+y+z of any cut is an upper bound on the size of the maximum matching.

Why? Picture.


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