Solving Very Sparse Rational Systems of Equations

  • Authors:
  • William Cook;Daniel E. Steffy

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology;Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Efficient methods for solving linear-programming problems in exact precision rely on the solution of sparse systems of linear equations over the rational numbers. We consider a test set of instances arising from exact-precision linear programming and use this test set to compare the performance of several techniques designed for symbolic sparse linear-system solving. We compare a direct exact solver based on LU factorization, Wiedemann’s method for black-box linear algebra, Dixon’s p-adic-lifting algorithm, and the use of iterative numerical methods and rational reconstruction as developed by Wan.