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- From: leverge@irisa.fr (Herve Leverge)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Permutation Polytopes
- Keywords: Extreme points
- Message-ID: <1992Oct12.181638.15916@irisa.fr>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 18:16:38 GMT
- References: <FRANK.92Sep18140543@ae.ae.tut.fi> <97468@bu.edu>
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- In article <97468@bu.edu>, mike@park.bu.edu (Michael Cohen) writes:
- |>
- |> Treat the orderings on n letters as permutations.
- |> For each ordering a, define a point in n X n-1/2
- |> space as follows.
- |>
- |> U_a(i,j) = 1 if i a j
- |> U_a(i,j) = -1 otherwise.
- |>
- |> Consider the convex polytope U which is a convex combination of these
- |> extreme points. Question: What is the polar polyhedron. i.e. the
- |> extreme points of the the of elements <l, u> <= 1. for all u in U.
- |> -mike
- |>
- |>
- |>
- |> --
- |> Boston University (617-353-7857) Email: mike@park.bu.edu
- |> Smail: Michael Cohen 111 Cummington Street, RM 242
- |> Center for Adaptive Systems Boston, Mass 02215
- |> Boston University
-
- A slight variant of this problem has been studied extensively by
- G. Reinelt. For this case :
-
- U_a(i,j)=1 if i a j
- =0 otherwise
- ^
-
- You might have a look in :
-
- @Book{Reinelt85,
- author = {{Reinelt}, Gerhard},
- title = {The Linear Ordering Problem: Algorithms and Applications},
- publisher = {Heldermann Verlag Berlin},
- year = {1985}
- }
-
-
- @TechReport{Reinelt91,
- author = {Gerhard Reinelt},
- title = {A Note on Small Linear Ordering Polytopes},
- institution = {Institut f\"{u}r Mathematik, Universit\"{a}t Augsburg,B}
- year = {1991},
- type = {Research Report},
- number = {329},
- address = {Universit\"{a}tsstra{\ss}e 8, D-8900 Augsburg},
- month = {November}
- }
-
-
- @Article{Grotschel84,
- author = {{Gr\"{o}tschel}, Martin and {J\"{u}nger}, Michael and
- {Reinelt}, Gerhard},
- title = {A {C}utting {P}lane {A}lgorithm for the {L}inear {O}rdering
- {P}roblem},
- journal = {Operations Research},
- year = {1984},
- volume = {32},
- number = {6},
- pages = {1195-1220},
- month = {November-December},
- OPTnote = ""
- }
-
- The corresponding polytope is only known until n=7, whose
- full description appears in the above report.
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- RV.
-