Exponential Lower Bounds on the Lengths of Some Classes of Branch-and-Cut Proofs

  • Authors:
  • Sanjeeb Dash

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We examine the complexity of branch-and-cut proofs in the context of 0-1 integer programs. We establish an exponential lower bound on the length of branch-and-cut proofs that use 0-1 branching and lift-and-project cuts (called simple disjunctive cuts by some authors), Gomory-Chvátal cuts, and cuts arising from the N0 matrix-cut operator of Lovász and Schrijver. A consequence of the lower-bound result in this paper is that branch-and-cut methods of the type described above have exponential running time in the worst case.