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On the complexity of sequentially lifting cover inequalities for the knapsack polytope

Optimization and Control 2019-03-12 v2

Abstract

The well-known sequentially lifted cover inequality is widely employed in solving mixed integer programs. However, it is still an open question whether a sequentially lifted cover inequality can be computed in polynomial time for a given minimal cover (Gu, Nemhauser, and Savelsbergh, INFORMS J. Comput., 26: 117--123, 1999). We show that this problem is NP-hard, thus giving a negative answer to the question.

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@article{arxiv.1811.10010,
  title  = {On the complexity of sequentially lifting cover inequalities for the knapsack polytope},
  author = {Wei-Kun Chen and Yu-Hong Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.10010},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages