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Can a convex polytope with $f$ facets have more than $f$ facets when projected into $\mathbb{R}^2$?
Let $P$ be a convex polytope in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $n$ vertices and $f$ facets.
Let $\text{Proj}(P)$ denote the projection of $P$ into $\mathbb{R}^2$.
Can $\text{Proj}(P)$ have more than $f$ facets?
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Random Sampling a linearly constrained region in n-dimensions...
Hi,
So here is my problem:
Given a nonlinear, discontinous, cost function $f(x_1,x_2,..,x_N)$ along with linear constraints $x_n \ge 0, \forall n$
$x_n \le c_n$
and $\sum_{n=1}^N x_n = 1$ find an ...
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Formula for volume of a convex polytope
So I've been searching around the internet for some answers to this, but I currently have a set of linear constraints: $Ax = b, Cx \le d$ for matrices $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times m}$, $b\in \mathbb{R}^...
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Is a given point in the interior of the convex hull of a given finite collection of points?
Suppose I have the convex hull $P$ of a finite collection of points in $\mathbb{R}^d,$ and I want to see whether a point $p$ is contained in $P.$ This is a standard (some would say the standard linear ...
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Has this generalization of a determinant (assigning multiplicities to the rows) been studied?
I'm working on some questions in tropical geometry, and my problem led me to create the following generalization of a determinant:
Let $A$ be an $m \times n$ matrix with $m \le n$, and positive ...
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Sampling uniformly from the vertices of a polytope
I'm looking for a reference on how to sample uniformly (and preferably efficiently, elegantly, etc.) from the vertices of a polytope. I gather that enumerating vertices is hard. I also note the MO ...
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A polytope with a bound on the sum of any $k$ variables
Let $2\le k\le n-1$ and define the polytope
$$P_k(n) = \lbrace (x_1,\ldots,x_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n :
-1\le x_{i_1}+\cdots +x_{i_k} \le 1 \text{ for all } 1\le i_1\lt\cdots\lt i_k\le n\rbrace.$$
There ...
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Examples of Polyhedra with Large Shadows
Let $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ be a polyhedron described by $\mathcal{O}(n^{c_1})$ inequalities, where $c_1$ is a constant. Moreover, let $M\colon P \to \mathbb{R}^2$ be a linear mapping. I'm looking ...
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A polytope associated with the Hadamard Transform
In an investigation of whether or not a subset $V$ of "Hamming Space" $M_n = \mathbb{F}_2^n$ is a tile (i.e. whether $M_n$ can be written as a disjoint partition of translates of $V$) in http://arxiv....
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Find the minimum distance between two convex hulls
We work over $\mathbb{R}^N$. Let $\mathbf{P}_1$ denote the hyperplane constructed using $N$ points, each of which is on a different axis (there are $N$ axes). We denote by $\mathbf{P}_2$ the convex ...
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Implementation of Friedman's algorithm of reconstructing simple polytopes
In Finding a Simple Polytope from Its Graph in Polynomial Time, Friedman gave a polynomial time algorithm on reconstructing a simple polytope from its graph. Has this algorithm been actually ...
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Calculate the discrete set of points B which are in the convex hull of the set of points A
This problem is likely best described with the following picture:
Given the discrete set of points $A$ (shown in blue), I wish to calculate the discrete set of points that are contained within the ...
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A question about polytopes related to linear programming
Given linear functions $f_1({\bf x}),\dots,f_n({\bf x})$ on ${\bf R}^m$, let $K = \{(a_1,\dots,a_n) \in {\bf R}^n:$ the $n$ halfspaces $\{{\bf x}: f_i({\bf x}) \leq a_i\} $ have nonempty intersection$\...
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Has anyone developed a technique to generate a polytope given (possibly redundant) inequality constraints? [closed]
I've found a few papers that deal with removing redundant inequality constraints for linear programs, but I'm just trying to find the vertices for a feasible region, given a set of inequality ...
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What importance does the Hirsch conjecture have to Simplex Complexity?
The Hirsch conjecture asserts that the graph (i.e. $1$-skeleton) of a $d$-dimensional convex polytope with $n$ facets has diameter at most $n - d$.
After being open for decades, Francisco Santos has ...
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Additional symmetries of the Traveling Salesman Polytope
Given the complete graph $K_n=(V,E)$, the Traveling Salesman Polytope is a convex polytope in $\Bbb R^E$ obtained as the convex hull of the indicator vectors of (edge-sets of) Hamiltonian cycles in $...
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Testing if a point is inside a convex polytope formed by halfspaces in n-dimension
Assume we have a convex polytope that is formed by the intersection of $k$-halfspaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$.
$$
a_{0,0}x^{n-1} + {a}_{0,1}x^{n-2} + ... a_{0,n-1} \leq 0
$$
$$
a_{1,0}x^{n-1} + {a}_{1,...
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Better tactics for removing redundant constraints than Linear Programming?
After reading:
Detection of Redundant Constraints
It appears that linear-programming is the most commonly known way to remove ALL redundant constraints from a system of inequalities of the form
$$ ...
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Interior point of a convex polytope
Suppose the convex polytope is the set of feasible solutions $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ for the linear system $\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}=\mathbf{b}\,,\; \mathbf{A}\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ subject to ...
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Sampling algorithms on convex polytopes
Let $f=\mathbf{c}\cdot\mathbf{x}$ be the optimization objective function whose parameter vector $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is subject to the following constraints in the very well-known linear-...
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Does quantifier elimination help here?
Suppose we have a quantified linear program
$$\exists z_1,\dots,z_{poly(n)}\in\mathbb R$$
$$\exists u_1,\dots,u_n\in\mathcal P\cap\mathbb R^m$$
$$\forall v_1,\dots,v_n\in\mathcal P\cap\mathbb R^m$$
$$...
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Is the problem of vertex enumeration from an H-representation of a polytope NP-hard?
According to the Wikipedia page on the issue, the vertex enumeration problem is NP-hard.
However, double description and reverse linear search are algorithms listed to solve the problem. Moreover, ...
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Integer point in a non-empty polytope
I have a high-dimensional, non-empty polytope $Ax\geq b$ sitting inside the cube ($0\leq x_i \leq 1$). Is there any general theory or technique to show that this polytope contains an integer point, ...
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Finding optimal linear transformation for intersection of convex polytopes
I previously posted this on MathSE and am now trying here.
I have the following situation, as shown in the following diagram:
$W=\{w_i\}_{i=1..|W|}$ is a set of vertices (show in diagram in blue) ...
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existence of lattice point in polytope
This question was probably asked before but here goes. I have a convex polytope given by $Ax\leq b$ for a specific integer matrix $A$ and integer vector $b$. I need a simple method/result on how to ...
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Derive a vertex representation of a permutohedron from its linear-inequalities form
Let us define the $n$-permutohedron $P_n$ as the set of all $x\in\mathbb{Q}^n$ such that
$$\sum_{i=1}^n x_i = \binom{n{+}1}{2}\ \ \ \land\ \ \ \forall\,\text{nonempty}\ S\subsetneq\mathbb{N}_n\colon\ ...
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Computation of extreme rays of rational polyhedral cones - Hemmecke's project and lift algorithm
I am working on an implementation of Raymond Hemmecke's algorithm for finding generating sets of cones: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0203105
Unfortunately I am struggling to make the algorithm work on ...
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Efficiently Generating the Convex Hulls of Two Polytopes and Counting Faces
Suppose you have two polytopes $P_1, P_2 \in \Bbb{R}^n$ given by
$$ P_1 = \lbrace x: A_1 x \le b_1\rbrace$$
$$ P_2 = \lbrace x: A_2 x \le b_2\rbrace $$
I wish to find their convex hull, that is a ...
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Check if a point is in the interior of the convex hull of some other points in high dimensions, and lower-bounding the largest enclosed ball [closed]
Given $m$ points $P=\{p_0, p_1, ..., p_m\}$ in high dimensions (e.g. 100), it is known that computing (or even representing) their convex hull $\text{conv}(P)$ is generally intractable due to the ...
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Integral hull of a polyhedron Q is polyhedron
Let $Q \subseteq R^n$ be a rational polyhedron and let $Q_I=Convexhull(Q \cap Z^n)$. By finite basis theorem, we have $Q=P+C$ for some rational polytope $P$ and finitely generated cone $C$ where $C=R_+...
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Does Hoffman constant keep the same after a very tiny perturbation on the polyhedron such that the bases are even unchanegd?
Suppose that $P$ is a polyhedron represented by
$$P:=\{x \in \mathbb{R}^n: A x \le b \} \text{ for }A \in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n},\ b \in \mathbb{R}^m,$$
and $P$ contains interior points. Moreover, the ...
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Detecting non-negativity of a single constraint by polyhedral constraints - $II$
Let $$\langle a,x\rangle=b$$ be a linear constraint where $x\in\mathbb R^n$ and every entry in $a=(a_1,\dots,a_n)$ is in $\mathbb Z_{\geq0}^{n}$ (non-negative) and the entry $b$ is in $\mathbb Z_{\...
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Decomposition of Polyhedral - An example
There is no doubt that clear examples consolidate the understanding of concepts being learnt. I am new to finding the structure and decomposition of a polyhedra. Suppose that we have the system
$$ \...
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Mixed integer formulation of union of polytopes?
Given $t$ different unbounded polyhedra $P_1:A^{(1)}x^{(1)}\leq b^{(1)},\dots,P_t:A^{(t)}x^{(t)}\leq b^{(t)}$ we are looking for the representation of $\bigcup_{i=1}^tP_i$ (not their convex hull) with ...
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How to minimize n-polytope's bounding box with linear transformation?
I am working on an exact algorithm for integer linear programming for my master's thesis:
$Ax\leq b, x \in \mathbb{Z}^n$
$cx\rightarrow min$
For my idea to work out, I need a guarantee that n-...
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In convex optimization we know that the optimum solution is on which hyper plane
We have a standard linear program, I mean a set of inequalities $c_i^Tx\leq b_i$ where $i\in \{1,\ldots ,k\}$ and we want to find $max\{c^Ty| y\in \{\cap \{x|c_i^Tx\leq b_i\}\}$. I put some condition ...
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Prove that the following set of triples forms a convex polytope
Take $a,\,b,\,c,\,d \in \mathbb R_+$ such that $a+b+c+d=1$. Define:
\begin{equation}
x_1 = \min(a+b,\,c+d)\,,\qquad x_2 = \min(a+c,\,b+d)\,,\qquad x_3 = \min(a+d,\,b+c)\;.
\end{equation}
I would like ...
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quick hull algorithm detail
When using quick hull algorithm to find the polytope for half space intersection, we are required to provide an interior point to the solver qhalf.
In other words, providing
$$Ax \le b$$
is not ...
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approximate diameter of polytopes in high dimensions
I just came across the following problem:
Let us consider the unit corner of the n-cube
$$
\Delta^n = \left\{(t_1,\cdots,t_n)\in\mathbb{R}^n\mid\sum_{i = 1}^{n}{t_i} \leq 1 \mbox{ and } t_i \ge 0 \...
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Gluing simplices through a common point/ realisation of a convex simplicial polytope
Given $m≥d+1$
a positive integer, is it always possible to find m d-dimensional simplices $\Delta_i=\mathrm{Conv}(M,V_{i,1},…,V_{i,d})$ such that
1) they all share the common vertex M
2) the ...
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How to find out if a polytope contains a sphere?
Given a polytope described by linear inequalities $Ax \le b, x \in \mathbb R^n$, how do you find out if there exist a (non degenerate) sphere of dimension $n-1$ contained in the polytope?
Thanks!
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Detecting non-negativity of a single constraint by polyhedral constraints - $I$
We consider $$\langle a,x\rangle=b$$ (linear constraints) where $x\in\mathbb R_{\geq0}^n$ and every entry in $a=(a_1,\dots,a_n)$ is in $\mathbb Z_{\geq0}^{n}$ (non-negative) and the entry $b$ is in $\...
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algorithms and tools available for a particular polytope computation
Let me define each half space i as:
$${H_i}:{c_i}{\bf{x}} \le {b_i}$$
The intersection of all such ${H_i}$ gives a polyhedron (bounded or not). Suppose I am interested in if ${H_i}$ is active (...
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Recursive linear programming on a linear subset of a simplex
The problem I am working on is:
Given an $n$ dimensional vector $r \in \mathcal{R}^n$, and a convex set $G=\{\mu \in \mathcal{R}^n | \mu_i \ge 0, ~ \mu^T \mathbf{1}=1, ~ A\mu =0 \}$ where $\mathbf{1}...
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Software for computing polytopes
As can be inferred from the title, I want to do some computation on the facets representation of the polytopes given the vertices. My advisor recommended me Polymake, which is indeed useful even with ...
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Minimum circumscribed ellipsoid of $\mathcal H$-polytope
Given matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ and vector $b \in \mathbb{R}^n$, consider the $\mathcal H$-polytope $P$ defined as follows
$$ P := \left\{ x \in \mathbb{R}^n : Ax \leq b \right\} $$
I ...
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Number of vertices in a polyhedron
Consider polytopes
$$A_1[x_{1,1},\dots,x_{1,m_1},z_{1}]'\leq b_1$$
$$A_2[x_{2,1},\dots,x_{2,m_2},z_{2}]'\leq b_2$$
$$B[z_{1},z_{2},z]'\leq c$$
having vertex count $v_1,v_2$ and $v$ respectively.
We ...
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Finding a point in the relative interior of the convex hull of a set of integer-valued vectors
Let $X \subset \mathbb{Z}^n$ be the set of integer-valued vectors satisfying a system of linear constraints. We can suppose that $X$ is the set of integral points in a given polyhydral set $Y \subset \...
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Can convex combinations of indicator functions for pairwise non-disjoint sets unordered by inclusion dominate one another?
Let $N$ be a finite subset of the naturals. Let $P$ be a set of subsets of $N$ such that:
1) $P\neq \varnothing$,
2) $\forall x\in P, |x| >1$,
3) $\forall x,y\in P,$ if $x\neq y$, then $x\not\...
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On OR condition in Linear Programming with exponentially many constraints [closed]
Suppose we have two linear programs $Ax\leq b$ and $Bx\leq c$ is there a way to combine them into one program of possibly a larger dimension $Cy\leq d$ such that projection of vectors $y$ into a ...
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