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Duality theory in linear optimization and its extensions -- formally verified

Optimization and Control 2026-03-18 v3 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Farkas established that a system of linear inequalities has a solution if and only if we cannot obtain a contradiction by taking a linear combination of the inequalities. We state and formally prove several Farkas-like theorems over linearly ordered fields in Lean 4. Furthermore, we extend duality theory to the case when some coefficients are allowed to take "infinite values".

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@article{arxiv.2409.08119,
  title  = {Duality theory in linear optimization and its extensions -- formally verified},
  author = {Martin Dvorak and Vladimir Kolmogorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.08119},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Code: https://github.com/madvorak/duality/tree/v3.2.0

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