The integrality number of an integer program
The integrality number of an integer program
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整数程序的完整性数
DOI:
10.1007/s10107-021-01651-0
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
R. Weismantel
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作者:
Joseph Paat;Miriam Schlöter;R. Weismantel
We introduce the integrality number of an integer program (IP). Roughly speaking, the integrality number is the smallest number of integer constraints needed to solve an IP via a mixed integer (MIP) relaxation. One notable property of this number is its invariance under unimodular transformations of the constraint matrix. Considering the largest minor Δ\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\varDelta $$\end{document} of the constraint matrix, our analysis allows us to make statements of the following form: there exists a number τ(Δ)\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\tau (\varDelta )$$\end{document} such that an IP with n many variables and n+n/τ(Δ)\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$n + \sqrt{n /\tau (\varDelta )}$$\end{document} many inequality constraints can be solved via a MIP relaxation with fewer than n integer constraints. From our results it follows that IPs defined by only n constraints can be solved via a MIP relaxation with O(Δ)\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$O(\sqrt{\varDelta })$$\end{document} many integer constraints.