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Cut polytope has vertices on a line

Discrete Mathematics 2018-12-11 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

The cut polytope CUT(n){\rm CUT}(n) is the convex hull of the cut vectors in a complete graph with vertex set {1,,n}\{1,\ldots,n\}. It is well known in the area of combinatorial optimization and recently has also been studied in a direct relation with admissible correlations of symmetric Bernoulli random variables. That probabilistic interpretation is a starting point of this work in conjunction with a natural binary encoding of the CUT(nn). We show that for any nn, with appropriate scaling, all vertices of the polytope 1{\mathbf 1}-CUT(nn) encoded as integers are approximately on the line y=x1/2y= x-1/2.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03212,
  title  = {Cut polytope has vertices on a line},
  author = {Nevena Maric},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03212},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages

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