Extended Formulations for Packing and Partitioning Orbitopes

  • Authors:
  • Yuri Faenza;Volker Kaibel

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Impresa, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata,” 00133 Rome, Italy;Fakultät für Mathematik, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We give compact extended formulations for the packing and partitioning orbitopes (with respect to the full symmetric group) described and analyzed in Kaibel and Pfetsch [Kaibel, V., M. E. Pfetsch. 2008. Packing and partitioning orbitopes. Math. Programming, Ser. A114(1) 1--36]. These polytopes are the convex hulls of all 0/1-matrices with lexicographically sorted columns and at most, respectively, exactly one 1-entry per row. They are important objects for symmetry reduction in certain integer programs. Using the extended formulations, we also derive a rather simple proof of the fact established in the paper mentioned above, that basically shifted-column inequalities suffice to describe those orbitopes linearly.