On the Matrix-Cut Rank of Polyhedra

  • Authors:
  • William Cook;Sanjeeb Dash

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Lov脙隆sz and Schrijver (1991) described a semidefinite operator for generating strong valid inequalities for the 0-1 vectors in a prescribed polyhedron. Among their results, they showed thatn iterations of the operator are sufficient to generate the convex hull of 0-1 vectors contained in a polyhedron inn-space. We give a simple example, having Chv脙隆tal rank 1, that meets this worst case bound ofn. We describe another example requiringn iterations even when combining the semidefinite and Gomory-Chv脙隆tal operators. This second example is used to show that the standard linear programming relaxation of ak-city traveling salesman problem requires at least ? k/8? iterations of the combined operator; this bound is best possible, up to a constant factor, ask+1 iterations suffice.