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1Non-Bipartite Matching: Tutte-Berge Formula, Gallai-Edmonds Decomposition, Blossoms
2Non-Bipartite Matching: Edmonds' Cardinality Algorithm and Proofs of Tutte-Berge Formulas and Gallai-Edmonds Decomposition
3Cubic Graphs and Matchings, Factor-Critical Graphs, Ear Decompositions
4The Matching Polytope, Total Dual Integrality, and Hilbert Bases
5Total Dual Integrality, Totally Unimodularity

Matching Polytope and the Cunningham-Marsh Formula Showing TDI
6Posets and Dilworth Theorem

Deduce Konig's Theorem for Bipartite Matchings

Weighted Posets and the Chain and Antichain Polytopes
7Partitioning Digraphs by Paths and Covering them by Cycles

Gallai-Milgram and Bessy-Thomasse Theorems

Cyclic Orderings
8Proof of the Bessy-Thomasse Result

The Cyclic Stable Set Polytope
9Matroids: Defs, Dual, Minor, Representability
10Matroids: Representability, Greedy Algorithm, Matroid Polytope
11Matroid Intersection
12Matroid Intersection, Matroid Union, Shannon Switching Game
13Matroid Intersection Polytope, Matroid Union
14Matroid Union, Packing and Covering with Spanning Trees, Strong Basis Exchange Properties
15Matroid Matching: Examples, Complexity, Lovasz's Minmax Relation for Linear Matroids
16Jump Systems: Definitions, Examples, Operations, Optimization, and Membership
17Jump Systems: Membership (cont.)
18Graph Orientations, Directed Cuts (Lucchesi-Younger Theorem), Submodular Flows
19Submodular Flows: Examples, Edmonds-Giles Theorem, Reduction to Matroid Intersection in Special Cases
20Splitting Off

$k$-Connectivity Orientations and Augmentations
21Proof of Splitting-Off

Submodular Function Minimization
22Multiflow and Disjoint Path Problems

Two-Commodity Flows
23The Okamura-Seymour Theorem and the Wagner-Weihe Linear-Time Algorithm

 








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