Packing and partitioning orbitopes

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DOI10.1007/S10107-006-0081-5zbMATH Open1171.90004arXivmath/0603678OpenAlexW2074723965MaRDI QIDQ925263FDOQ925263

Marc E. Pfetsch, Volker Kaibel

Publication date: 3 June 2008

Published in: Mathematical Programming. Series A. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce orbitopes as the convex hulls of 0/1-matrices that are lexicographically maximal subject to a group acting on the columns. Special cases are packing and partitioning orbitopes, which arise from restrictions to matrices with at most or exactly one 1-entry in each row, respectively. The goal of investigating these polytopes is to gain insight into ways of breaking certain symmetries in integer programs by adding constraints, e.g., for a well-known formulation of the graph coloring problem. We provide a thorough polyhedral investigation of packing and partitioning orbitopes for the cases in which the group acting on the columns is the cyclic group or the symmetric group. Our main results are complete linear inequality descriptions of these polytopes by facet-defining inequalities. For the cyclic group case, the descriptions turn out to be totally unimodular, while for the symmetric group case both the description and the proof are more involved. Nevertheless, the associated separation problem can be solved in linear time also in this case.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0603678





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