Some applications of nonnegative linear systems: Farkas strikes again

  • Authors:
  • Robin Lougee-Heimer;Warren P. Adams;Douglas R. Shier

  • Affiliations:
  • Manufacturing Systems, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1907, USA;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1907, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper presents a unifying perspective for analyzing certain systems of linear equations in nonnegative variables that arise in diverse areas of operations research: economic exchange models, finite Markov chains, directed graphs, and zero-one quadratic programs. Farkas' lemma is seen to play a central role in establishing general existence, uniqueness, and positivity results. A new application involving Lagrangian duality is developed.