Looking for all solutions of the Max Atom Problem (MAP)
Abstract
This present paper provides the absolutely necessary corrections to the previous work entitled {\it A polynomial Time Algorithm to Solve The Max-atom Problem} (arXiv:2106.08854v1). The max-atom-problem (MAP) deals with system of scalar inequalities (called atoms or max-atom) of the form: . Where is a real number and and belong to the set of the variables of the whole MAP. A max-atom is said to be positive if its scalar is and stricly negative if its scalar . A MAP will be said to be positive if all atoms are positive. In the case of non positive MAP we present a saturation principle for system of vectorial inequalities of the form in the so-called -algebra assuming some properties on the matrix . Then, we apply such principle to explore all non-trivial solutions (ie ). We deduce a strongly polynomial method to express all solutions of a non positive MAP. In the case a positive MAP which has always the vector as trivial solution we show that looking for all solutions requires the enumeration of all elementary circuits in a graph associated with the MAP. However, we propose a strongly polynomial method wich provides some non trivial solutions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2408.14256,
title = {Looking for all solutions of the Max Atom Problem (MAP)},
author = {Laurent Truffet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.14256},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
in French language