Minimum Lk path partitioning-An illustration of the Monge property

  • Authors:
  • Pei-Hao Ho;Arie Tamir;Bang Ye Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Shu-Te University, YenChau, KaoShiung 824, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Statistics and Operations Research, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Shu-Te University, YenChau, KaoShiung 824, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We investigate the problem of cutting a given sequence of positive real numbers into p pieces, with the objective of minimizing the L"k norm of the sums of the numbers in these pieces. We observe that this problem satisfies a Monge property, and thus derive fast algorithms for it.