Paper 1, Section I, H
Part IB, 2015
(a) Consider a network with vertices in and directed edges in . Suppose that 1 is the source and is the sink. Let , be the capacity of the edge from vertex to vertex for . Let a cut be a partition of into and with and . Define the capacity of the cut . Write down the maximum flow problem. Prove that the maximum flow is bounded above by the minimum cut capacity.
(b) Find the maximum flow from the source to the sink in the network below, where the directions and capacities of the edges are shown. Explain your reasoning.