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A polynomial-size extended formulation for the multilinear polytope of beta-acyclic hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2023-08-30 v2 Optimization and Control

Abstract

We consider the multilinear polytope defined as the convex hull of the set of binary points satisfying a collection of multilinear equations. The complexity of the facial structure of the multilinear polytope is closely related to the acyclicity degree of the underlying hypergraph. We obtain a polynomial-size extended formulation for the multilinear polytope of beta-acyclic hypergraphs, hence characterizing the acyclic hypergraphs for which such a formulation can be constructed.

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@article{arxiv.2212.11239,
  title  = {A polynomial-size extended formulation for the multilinear polytope of beta-acyclic hypergraphs},
  author = {Alberto Del Pia and Aida Khajavirad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11239},
  year   = {2023}
}
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