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On the polyhedron of the K-partitioning problem with representative variables

Optimization and Control 2014-11-25 v1

Abstract

The K-partitioning problem consists of partitioning the vertices of a graph in K sets so as to minimize a function of the edge weights. We introduce a linear mixed integer formulation with edge variables and representative variables. We consider the corresponding polyhedron and show which inequalities are facet-defining. We study several families of facet-defining inequalities and provide experimental results showing that they improve significantly the linear relaxation of our formulation.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6283,
  title  = {On the polyhedron of the K-partitioning problem with representative variables},
  author = {Zacharie Ales and Arnaud Knippel and Alexandre Pauchet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6283},
  year   = {2014}
}