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- From: reeds@alice.att.com (Jim Reeds)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Re: P=NP; the proof
- Summary: Mike wants more than G&S claim!
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- Message-ID: <24567@alice.att.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:00:01 GMT
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- jmr@cs.anu.edu.au (Mike Robson) writes:
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- >[...]
- >I'll go back to trying to decide if the current Gismondi and Swart
- >linear programming formulation has the required property (that every
- >solution covers a permutation). If that claim is true, then I think
- >my approach is a good way to try and prove it.
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- This is rather more than G&S themselves state. If every point in the
- feasible region covers a permutation, then the extreme points of the
- feasible region are exactly the permutations, and hence every point in
- the feasible region is expressible as a convex combination of permutations.
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- But all G&S claim is that any solution is expresible as an affine
- combination of permutations, with AT MOST ONE NEGATIVE COEFFICIENT.
- (I would like to see a real proof that any solution is expressible
- as an affine combination of permutations, regardless of sign. Equivalently,
- I'd like to know the dimension of the affine hull of the G&S feasible
- region.)
- Jim
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