Unique sink orientations of grids

  • Authors:
  • Bernd Gärtner;Walter D. Morris;Leo Rüst

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, US-Fairfax, VA;Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • IPCO'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We introduce unique sink orientations of grids as digraph models for many well-studied problems, including linear programming over products of simplices and generalized linear complementarity problems over P-matrices (PGLCP). We investigate the combinatorial structure of such orientations and develop randomized algorithms for finding the sink. We show that the orientations arising from PGLCP satisfy the combinatorial Holt-Klee condition known to hold for polytope digraphs, and we give the first expected linear-time algorithms for solving PGLCP with a fixed number of blocks.