On the complexity of cutting-plane proofs using split cuts

  • Authors:
  • Sanjeeb Dash

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, United States

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We prove a monotone interpolation property for split cuts which, together with results from Pudlak (1997) [20], implies that cutting-plane proofs which use split cuts (or, equivalently, mixed-integer rounding cuts or Gomory mixed-integer cuts) have exponential length in the worst case.