On the Number of Degenerate Simplex Pivots

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: On the Number of Degenerate Simplex Pivots
المؤلفون: Kukharenko, Kirill, Sanità, Laura
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Optimization and Control, Mathematics - Combinatorics, 90C05 (Primary), 90C08 (Secondary), F.2.2
الوصف: The simplex algorithm is one of the most popular algorithms to solve linear programs (LPs). Starting at an extreme point solution of an LP, it performs a sequence of basis exchanges (called pivots) that allows one to move to a better extreme point along an improving edge-direction of the underlying polyhedron. A key issue in the simplex algorithm's performance is degeneracy, which may lead to a (potentially long) sequence of basis exchanges which do not change the current extreme point solution. In this paper, we prove that it is always possible to limit the number of consecutive degenerate pivots that the simplex algorithm performs to $n-m-1$, where $n$ is the number of variables and $m$ is the number of equality constraints of a given LP in standard equality form.
Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15799
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2311.15799
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv