In the mathematical discipline of graph theory and related areas, Menger's theorem is a basic result about connectivity in finite undirected graphs. It was proved by Karl Menger in 1927 and later generalized by the max-flow min-cut theorem.
Let G be a finite undirected graph and x and y two nonadjacent vertices. Then the theorem states that the size of the minimum vertex cut for x and y (the minimum number of vertices whose removal disconnects x and y) is equal to the maximum number of pairwise vertex-independent paths from x to y.
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