The hierarchy of circuit diameters and transportation polytopes

DOI10.1016/J.DAM.2015.10.017zbMATH Open1383.05072DBLPjournals/dam/BorgwardtLFM18OpenAlexW2210056327WikidataQ60242755 ScholiaQ60242755MaRDI QIDQ1707908FDOQ1707908

Authors: Steffen Borgwardt, Jesús A. De Loera, Elisabeth Finhold, Jacob Miller 

Publication date: 4 April 2018

Published in: Discrete Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The study of the diameter of the graph of polyhedra is a classical problem in the theory of linear programming. While transportation polytopes are at the core of operations research and statistics it is still open whether the Hirsch conjecture is true for general $mimesn$--transportation polytopes. In earlier work the first three authors introduced a hierarchy of variations to the notion of graph diameter in polyhedra. The key reason was that this hierarchy provides some interesting lower bounds for the usual graph diameter. This paper has three contributions: First, we compare the hierarchy of diameters for the $mimesn$--transportation polytopes. We show that the Hirsch conjecture bound of $m+n-1$ is actually valid in most of these diameter notions. Second, we prove that for $3imesn$--transportation polytopes the Hirsch conjecture holds in the classical graph diameter. Third, we show for $2imesn$--transportation polytopes that the stronger monotone Hirsch conjecture holds and improve earlier bounds on the graph diameter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1701

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zbMATH Keywords

graph diametercircuit diameterHirsch conjecturetransportation polytopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Distance in graphs (05C12)

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