Graph Theory37 sections · 1633 units
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Vertex Connectivity

Minimum vertices to disconnect

Vertex connectivity is the minimum number of vertices you must remove to disconnect the graph (or make it trivial if already small). This measures node-level resilience. You can compute it using max flow by splitting each vertex vv into vinv_{in} and voutv_{out} with an edge of capacity 11 between them.

Then find minimum ss-tt cuts for all pairs. The split vertices enforce that removing a vertex counts as 11 unit. Vertex connectivity measures how many node failures the network can handle before becoming disconnected.