Characterizing Polytopes Contained in the $0/1$-Cube with Bounded Chv\'atal-Gomory Rank
Abstract
Let and be any polytope contained in with . We prove that has bounded Chv\'atal-Gomory rank (CG-rank) provided that has bounded notch and bounded gap, where the notch is the minimum integer such that all -dimensional faces of the -cube have a nonempty intersection with , and the gap is a measure of the size of the facet coefficients of . Let denote the subgraph of the -cube induced by the vertices not in . We prove that if does not contain a subdivision of a large complete graph, then both the notch and the gap are bounded. By our main result, this implies that the CG-rank of is bounded as a function of the treewidth of . We also prove that if has notch , then the CG-rank of is always bounded. Both results generalize a recent theorem of Cornu\'ejols and Lee, who proved that the CG-rank is bounded by a constant if the treewidth of is at most .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.06593,
title = {Characterizing Polytopes Contained in the $0/1$-Cube with Bounded Chv\'atal-Gomory Rank},
author = {Yohann Benchetrit and Samuel Fiorini and Tony Huynh and Stefan Weltge},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06593},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
10 pages. Changed term 'pitch' to 'notch'. Removed 'Extended Formulations' section since those results have been subsumed by https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01358