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Edge-isoperimetric inequalities in the grid. (English) Zbl 0755.05045

This paper gives a lower bound on the number of edges between a subset of a grid graph and its complement. The bound is essentially sharp.

MSC:

05C35 Extremal problems in graph theory
05A20 Combinatorial inequalities
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