Lift and project relaxations for the matching and related polytopes

We compare lift and project methods given by Lovász and Schrijver (the N+ and N procedures) and by Balas, Ceria and Cornuéjols (the disjunctive procedure) when working on the matching, perfect matching and covering polytopes. When the underlying graph is the complete graph of n=2s+1 nodes we obtain...

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Autores: Aguilera, Néstor Edgardo, Bianchi, Silvia María, Nasini, Graciela Leonor
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/100619
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/100619
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:COVERING
MATCHING
POLYHEDRAL COMBINATORICS
SEQUENTIAL TIGHTENING PROCEDURES
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.1
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Sumario:We compare lift and project methods given by Lovász and Schrijver (the N+ and N procedures) and by Balas, Ceria and Cornuéjols (the disjunctive procedure) when working on the matching, perfect matching and covering polytopes. When the underlying graph is the complete graph of n=2s+1 nodes we obtain that the disjunctive index for all problems is s2, the N+-index for the matching and perfect matching problems is s (extending a result by Stephen and Tunçel), the N-index for the perfect matching problem is s, and the N+ and N indices for the covering problem and the N-index for the matching problem are strictly greater than s.