Theoretical filtering of RLT bound-factor constraints for solving polynomial programming problems to global optimality

  • Authors:
  • Evrim Dalkiran;Hanif D. Sherali

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA 48202;Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA 24061

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Global Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose two sets of theoretically filtered bound-factor constraints for constructing reformulation-linearization technique (RLT)-based linear programming (LP) relaxations for solving polynomial programming problems. We establish related theoretical results for convergence to a global optimum for these reduced sized relaxations, and provide insights into their relative sizes and tightness. Extensive computational results are provided to demonstrate the relative effectiveness of the proposed theoretical filtering strategies in comparison to the standard RLT and a prior heuristic filtering technique using problems from the literature as well as randomly generated test cases.