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Abstract
We present a combinatorial algorithm for determining a maximum packing of hypertrees in a capacitated hypergraph. This is an algorithmic proof of a theorem by Frank et al. [7]. This allows the extension of several algorithms developed for graphs to hypergraphs, for the k-cut problem.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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