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A Novel Algorithm for Linear Programming

Numerical Analysis 2013-03-21 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

The problem of optimizing a linear objective function,given a number of linear constraints has been a long standing problem ever since the times of Kantorovich, Dantzig and von Neuman. These developments have been followed by a different approach pioneered by Khachiyan and Karmarkar. In this paper we present an entirely new method for solving an old optimization problem in a novel manner, a technique that reduces the dimension of the problem step by step and interestingly is recursive. A theorem which proves the correctness of the approach is given. The method can be extended to other types of optimization problems in convex space, e.g. for solving a linear optimization problem subject to nonlinear constraints in a convex region.

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@article{arxiv.1303.4942,
  title  = {A Novel Algorithm for Linear Programming},
  author = {K. Eswaran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.4942},
  year   = {2013}
}
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