Linear vs. semidefinite extended formulations: exponential separation and strong lower bounds

  • Authors:
  • Samuel Fiorini;Serge Massar;Sebastian Pokutta;Hans Raj Tiwary;Ronald de Wolf

  • Affiliations:
  • Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany;Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;CWI and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • STOC '12 Proceedings of the forty-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We solve a 20-year old problem posed by Yannakakis and prove that there exists no polynomial-size linear program (LP) whose associated polytope projects to the traveling salesman polytope, even if the LP is not required to be symmetric. Moreover, we prove that this holds also for the cut polytope and the stable set polytope. These results were discovered through a new connection that we make between one-way quantum communication protocols and semidefinite programming reformulations of LPs.