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0/1 Polytopes with Quadratic Chvátal Rank

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  • Thomas Rothvoß

    (University of Washington, Seattle, 98105)

  • Laura Sanità

    (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada)

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For a polytope P , the Chvátal closure P ′ ⊆ P is obtained by simultaneously strengthening all feasible inequalities cx ⩽ β (with integral c ) to cx ⩽ ⌊ β ⌋. The number of iterations of this procedure that are needed until the integral hull of P is reached is called the Chvátal rank. If P ⊆ [0, 1] n , then it is known that O ( n 2 log n ) iterations always suffice and at least (1 + 1/ e − o (1)) n iterations are sometimes needed, leaving a huge gap between lower and upper bounds.We prove that there is a polytope contained in the 0/1 cube that has Chvátal rank Ω( n 2 ), closing the gap up to a logarithmic factor. In fact, even a superlinear lower bound was mentioned as an open problem by several authors. Our choice of P is the convex hull of a semi-random Knapsack polytope and a single fractional vertex. The main technical ingredient is linking the Chvátal rank to simultaneous Diophantine approximations w.r.t. the ‖·‖ 1 -norm of the normal vector defining P .

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  • Thomas Rothvoß & Laura Sanità, 2017. "0/1 Polytopes with Quadratic Chvátal Rank," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 65(1), pages 212-220, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:65:y:2017:i:1:p:212-220
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.2016.1549
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