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# Technical Program

## Paper Detail

 Paper ID D3-S7-T1.3 Paper Title Edge removal in undirected networks Authors Michael Langberg, University at Buffalo, United States; Michelle Effros, Caltech, United States Session D3-S7-T1: Topics in Network Coding II Chaired Session: Thursday, 15 July, 00:00 - 00:20 Engagement Session: Thursday, 15 July, 00:20 - 00:40 Abstract The edge-removal problem asks whether the removal of a $\lambda$-capacity edge from a given network can decrease the communication rate between source-terminal pairs by more than $\lambda$. We prove that for undirected networks, removing a $\lambda$ capacity edge decreases the rate by $O(\lambda)$. Through previously known reductive arguments, here newly applied to undirected networks, our result implies that the zero-error capacity region of an undirected network equals its vanishing-error capacity region. Whether it is possible to prove similar results for directed networks remains an open question.