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All Cyclic Group Facets Inject

Group Theory 2019-04-18 v2 Optimization and Control

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 1/qZ1/q\,\mathbb{Z} for some qNq\in \mathbb{N}) and that take rational values at the breakpoints. In contrast to Basu et al.'s construction, our construction preserves all function values on 1/qZ1/q\,\mathbb{Z}. As a corollary, we obtain that every extreme function for the finite group problem on 1/qZ1/q\,\mathbb{Z} is the restriction of a continuous piecewise linear two-slope extreme function for the infinite group problem with breakpoints on a refinement 1/(Mq)Z1/(Mq)\,\mathbb{Z} for some MNM\in \mathbb{N}. 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.

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@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)

R2 v1 2026-06-23T03:14:22.768Z