@InProceedings{harb_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.56, author = {Harb, Elfarouk and Quanrud, Kent and Chekuri, Chandra}, title = {{Convergence to Lexicographically Optimal Base in a (Contra)Polymatroid and Applications to Densest Subgraph and Tree Packing}}, booktitle = {31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)}, pages = {56:1--56:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-295-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2023}, volume = {274}, editor = {G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.56}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187091}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.56}, annote = {Keywords: Polymatroid, lexicographically optimum base, densest subgraph, tree packing} }