scientific article; zbMATH DE number 15357

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0698.00017.] This paper extends the investigation in a previous paper of the authors [Math. Program., Ser. A 47, No. 3, 367-387 (1990; Zbl 0715.90092)]. It deals with the following problem: Let \(K_ n=(V_ n,E_ n)\) be a complete graph with \(n\) vertices. An edge set \(A\subset E_ n\) is called clique-partitioning if there exists a partition \(\{W_ 1,\dots,W_ k\}\) of the vertex set \(V_ n\) such that \(A\) is the union of all those edges in \(E_ n\) which have both endnotes in \(W_ i\) for some \(i\in\{1,\dots,k\}\). If \(c\) is a real weight function on \(E_ n\), then \(c(A)=\sum_{e\in A} c(e)\). Then the clique partition problem is to find \(A^*\) such that \(c(A^*)\) is minimal. The problem is transferred into a linear program by introducing the clique partitioning polytope \({\mathcal P}_ n\). Here the vertices of \({\mathcal P}_ n\) are in one-to-one correspondence with the cliques of \(K_ n\) and therefore the minimizing problem reduces to minimizing \(c'x\), \(x\in{\mathcal P}_ n\). The problem is of NP-type and therefore it is very unlikely that an explicit complete description can ever be obtained. The authors therefore continue to define special but large classes for which \({\mathcal P}_ n\) can be given as an intersection of half-spaces.











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