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A special role of Boolean quadratic polytopes among other combinatorial polytopes

Computational Complexity 2018-04-18 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider several families of combinatorial polytopes associated with the following NP-complete problems: maximum cut, Boolean quadratic programming, quadratic linear ordering, quadratic assignment, set partition, set packing, stable set, 3-assignment. For comparing two families of polytopes we use the following method. We say that a family PP is affinely reduced to a family QQ if for every polytope pPp\in P there exists qQq\in Q such that pp is affinely equivalent to qq or to a face of qq, where dimq=O((dimp)k)\dim q = O((\dim p)^k) for some constant kk. Under this comparison the above-mentioned families are splitted into two equivalence classes. We show also that these two classes are simpler (in the above sence) than the families of poytopes of the following problems: set covering, traveling salesman, 0-1 knapsack problem, 3-satisfiability, cubic subgraph, partial ordering. In particular, Boolean quadratic polytopes appear as faces of polytopes in every of the mentioned families.

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@article{arxiv.1408.0948,
  title  = {A special role of Boolean quadratic polytopes among other combinatorial polytopes},
  author = {Aleksandr Maksimenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0948},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages