Consider an undirected graph with a source and a sink vertex. We would like to remove minimum number of vertices in that graph to disconnect any path between source and sink.
My intuition tells me that we can use max-flow, min-cut algorithm to solve this problem. I don't know whether my solution is correct or not. Please help me check it:
- Replace each of the undirected edges with a pair of directed edges.
- Replace each vertex $v$ with two vertices $v_\text{in}$ and $v_\text{out}$ connected by an edge. all the incoming edges of $v$ will be connected with $v_\text{in}$, all the outgoing edges of $v$ will be connected with $v_\text{out}$.
- Try to find a minimum cut $M$. The edges of $M$ refer to the vertices that we need to remove.
