Carathéodory bounds for integer cones

  • Authors:
  • Friedrich Eisenbrand;Gennady Shmonin

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We provide analogues of Caratheodory's theorem for integer cones and apply our bounds to integer programming and to the cutting stock problem. In particular, we provide an NP certificate for the latter, whose existence has not been known so far.