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Chorded cycle facets of the clique partitioning polytope

Discrete Mathematics 2025-07-18 v3 Optimization and Control

Abstract

The qq-chorded kk-cycle inequalities are a class of valid inequalities for the clique partitioning polytope. It is known that for q{2,k12}q \in \{2, \tfrac{k-1}{2}\}, these inequalities induce facets of the clique partitioning polytope if and only if kk is odd. Here, we characterize such facets for arbitrary kk and qq. More specifically, we prove that the qq-chorded kk-cycle inequalities induce facets of the clique partitioning polytope if and only if two conditions are satisfied: k=1k = 1 mod qq, and if k=3q+1k=3q+1 then q=3q=3 or qq is even. This establishes the existence of many facets induced by qq-chorded kk-cycle inequalities beyond those previously known.

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@article{arxiv.2411.03407,
  title  = {Chorded cycle facets of the clique partitioning polytope},
  author = {Jannik Irmai and Lucas Fabian Naumann and Bjoern Andres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03407},
  year   = {2025}
}

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