Maximal lattice free bodies, test sets and the Frobenius problem

arXiv0705.4439MaRDI QIDQ6205765FDOQ6205765

Authors: Anders Nedergaard Jensen, Niels Lauritzen, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune 

Publication date: 30 May 2007

Abstract: Maximal lattice free bodies are maximal polytopes without interior integral points. Scarf initiated the study of maximal lattice free bodies relative to the facet normals in a fixed matrix. In this paper we give an efficient algorithm for computing the maximal lattice free bodies of an integral matrix A. An important ingredient is a test set for a certain integer program associated with A. This test set may be computed using algebraic methods. As an application we generalize the Scarf-Shallcross algorithm for the three-dimensional Frobenius problem to arbitrary dimension. In this context our method is inspired by the novel algorithm by Einstein, Lichtblau, Strzebonski and Wagon and the Groebner basis approach by Roune.

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