Sparsity of integer formulations for binary programs

Christopher Hojny, Hendrik Lüthen, Marc E. Pfetsch (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

This paper considers integer formulations of binary sets X of minimum sparsity, i.e., the maximal number of non-zeros for each row of the corresponding constraint matrix is minimized. Providing a constructive mechanism for computing the minimum sparsity, we derive sparsest integer formulations of several combinatorial problems, including the traveling salesman problem. We also show that sparsest formulations are NP-hard to separate, while (under mild assumptions) there exists a dense formulation of X separable in polynomial time.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)348-352
Number of pages5
JournalOperations Research Letters
Volume47
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • IP formulation
  • Separation complexity
  • Sparsity

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