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Linear Programming Complementation

Linear programming complementation
Authors: Maximilien Gadouleau; George B. Mertzios; Viktor Zamaraev;

Linear Programming Complementation

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In this paper we introduce a new operation for Linear Programming (LP), called LP complementation, which resembles many properties of LP duality. Given a maximisation (resp.~minimisation) LP $P$, we define its complement $Q$ as a specific minimisation (resp.~maximisation) LP with the same objective function as $P$. Our central result is the LP complementation theorem, that establishes the following relationship between the optimal value $\text{Opt}(P)$ of $P$ and the optimal value $\text{Opt}(Q)$ of its complement: $\frac{1}{\text{Opt}(P)}+\frac{1}{\text{Opt}(Q)}=1$. The LP complementation operation can be applied if and only if $\text{Opt}(P) > 1$. We then apply LP complementation to hypergraphs. For every hypergraph $H=(V,E)$, its dual is $H^*$ and we call $\overline{H}=(V,\{V\setminus e : e\in E\})$ the complement of $H$. For the covering LP $K(H)$ we obtain $\frac{1}{ \text{Opt}( K(H^*) ) }+\frac{1}{\text{Opt}( K(\overline{H}) ) } = 1$ (and similarly for packing, matching and transversal LPs). We then consider \emph{fractional graph theory}. We prove that the LP for the \Define{fractional in-dominating number} of a digraph $D$ is the complement of the LP for the \Define{fractional total out-dominating number} of the digraph complement of $D$. We also establish that the fractional matching number of a matroid coincides with its edge toughness. Finally, we introduce the problem \text{Vertex Cover with Budget (VCB)}: for a graph $G$ and a positive integer $b$, what is the maximum number $t_b$ of vertex covers $S_1, \dots, S_{t_b}$ of $G$, such that every vertex appears in at most $b$ vertex covers? We relate \text{VCB} with the LP $Q_G$ for the fractional chromatic number of $G$: as $b \to \infty$, $t_b \sim t_f \cdot b$, where $t_f$ is the optimal value of the complement LP of $Q_G$.

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FOS: Computer and information sciences, Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM), hypergraph, linear programming, fractional vertex cover, fractional dominating number, Optimization and Control (math.OC), Linear programming, Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science, FOS: Mathematics, duality, Mathematics - Combinatorics, Combinatorics (math.CO), Mathematics - Optimization and Control, Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics

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