Jumping doesn't help in abstract cubes

  • Authors:
  • Ingo Schurr;Tibor Szabó

  • Affiliations:
  • Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;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 construct a class of abstract objective functions on the cube, such that the algorithm BottomAntipodal takes exponentially many steps to find the maximum. A similar class of abstract objective functions is constructed for the process BottomTop, also requiring exponentially many steps.