Clique-Web Facets for Multicut Polytopes

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The authors are concerned with facets of special polytopes which are induced by some \(k\)-partition \(V=V_ 1+\cdots+ V_ k\) of the set of vertices of a given graph \(G=(V,E)\) in the following way: a multicut is an edge set, where each edge connects two different parts of \(V\). The polytopes now are the convex hulls of the incidence vectors of all multicuts with at most \(k\) shores (respectively at least \(k\) shores) of the complete graph \(K_ n\): \(MC_ k(n)\) (resp. \(MC_{\geq k}(n))\). For given integers \(n\), \(p\), \(q\) and \(r\) with \(n=p+q\), \(p-q\geq 2r+1\) clique-web inequalities are introduced and it is shown that they are valid for the multicut polytope \(MC_ k(n)\). The parameter values are rigorously classified with respect to be facet-inducing for \(MC_ k(n)\) resp. \(MC_{\geq k}(n)\). The operations `collapsing' and `lifting' are extended to multicuts and yield new classes of facets too.




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