All Cyclic Group Facets Inject
Abstract
We give a variant of Basu-Hildebrand-Molinaro's approximation theorem for continuous minimal valid functions for Gomory-Johnson's infinite group problem by piecewise linear two-slope extreme functions [Minimal cut-generating functions are nearly extreme, IPCO 2016]. Our theorem is for piecewise linear minimal valid functions that have only rational breakpoints (in for some ) and that take rational values at the breakpoints. In contrast to Basu et al.'s construction, our construction preserves all function values on . As a corollary, we obtain that every extreme function for the finite group problem on is the restriction of a continuous piecewise linear two-slope extreme function for the infinite group problem with breakpoints on a refinement for some . In combination with Gomory's master theorem [Some Polyhedra related to Combinatorial Problems, Lin. Alg. Appl. 2 (1969), 451-558], this shows that the infinite group problem is the correct master problem for facets (extreme functions) of 1-row group relaxations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.09758,
title = {All Cyclic Group Facets Inject},
author = {Matthias Köppe and Yuan Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09758},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
21 pages, 5 figures. Dedicated to Professor Ellis L. Johnson on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. v2 corrects a mistake in the subadditivity lemma (Lemma 4.4)