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Authors: OpenAI. Family 174.

Title: A polynomial-time construction of strong thin trees.

Abstract: We give a deterministic polynomial-time construction of strong thin trees. Given a finite k-edge-connected loopless multigraph on at least one vertex, the algorithm constructs a spanning tree meeting every cut in at most a $C/k$ fraction of its edges, for a universal constant C. The running time is polynomial in the binary input length, including when parallel-edge multiplicities are encoded in binary.

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