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Characterizing Polytopes Contained in the $0/1$-Cube with Bounded Chv\'atal-Gomory Rank

Optimization and Control 2017-11-09 v3 Computational Complexity Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let S{0,1}nS \subseteq \{0,1\}^n and RR be any polytope contained in [0,1]n[0,1]^n with R{0,1}n=SR \cap \{0,1\}^n = S. We prove that RR has bounded Chv\'atal-Gomory rank (CG-rank) provided that SS has bounded notch and bounded gap, where the notch is the minimum integer pp such that all pp-dimensional faces of the 0/10/1-cube have a nonempty intersection with SS, and the gap is a measure of the size of the facet coefficients of conv(S)\mathsf{conv}(S). Let H[Sˉ]H[\bar{S}] denote the subgraph of the nn-cube induced by the vertices not in SS. We prove that if H[Sˉ]H[\bar{S}] 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 RR is bounded as a function of the treewidth of H[Sˉ]H[\bar{S}]. We also prove that if SS has notch 33, then the CG-rank of RR 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 H[Sˉ]H[\bar{S}] is at most 22.

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@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