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I came across the maximum weight subgraph which is defined as

Let x=(x1, …, xn) in $\{{0, 1}\}^n$ be an indicator vector over nodes of graph G, i.e., node u belongs to S iff $x_u$=1. Then the weight of a subgraph S with K nodes can be expressed as:

$g(S) = \frac{1}{K^2}\sum_{u,v \epsilon S} A(u,v) = x^TAx$

I didn't get the point of dividing it by $K^2$. What's the meaning of that

Again the definition of maximum density subgraph is

The density a subgraph S is given by:

$g(S) = \frac{1}{{|S|}^2}\sum_{u,v\epsilon S} A(u,v) = x^TAx$

However, now $x_u$ = $\frac{1}{|S|}$ if x in S and $x_u$=0 otherwise. The problem of finding a densest subgraph can be relaxed to max

I didn't get this definition as well. What is $|S|$ here and whats the difference with maximum weight subgraph

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The tag graph is intended for questions about graphs of functions, see the tag-wiki and the tag-excerpt. (The tag-excerpt is also shown when you are adding a tag to a question.) There is a separate tag for graph-theory. – Martin Sleziak Mar 18 at 9:12

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