Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
2 votes
1 answer
874 views

Interpreting mincost flow dual variables

Consider the task of finding flow of size $b$ with minimum possible cost. It may be formulated as linear programming in a following way: $$\boxed{\begin{gather} \min\limits_{f_{ij} \in \mathbb R} &...
0 votes
1 answer
28 views

Calculating vertex potentials from optimal matchings

Question: can the solution to the dual of a Linear Program be calculated directly from the solution of the primal Linear Program? If yes, what are known algorithms and their bounds on complexity. As ...
3 votes
0 answers
282 views

Continuum of Lagrange multipliers, duality gap, and minimax theorem

Suppose I have a linear optimization problem involving random variables on some (infinite) probability space $\Omega$. For example, need to maximize expectation $E[Q]$ of random variable $Q$ subject ...
2 votes
0 answers
66 views

Proving the existence of a dual for an infinite linear program

I am concerned with proving the existence of the dual of an infinite linear program. In addition to the writings of Rockafellar, Luenberger, and Boyd & Vandenberghe on: subdifferentials, Legendre-...
0 votes
1 answer
99 views

Finding dual of a scheduling LP formulation

Suppose I have an LP formulation as such: $\min\ \ \sum\limits_{i,j,t}\ w_{ij}x_{ijt} (\frac{t-r_j}{p_{ij}}+0.5)$ $\sum\limits_{i,t}\frac{x_{ijt}}{p_{ij}}=1\,\forall\ j$ $\sum\limits_{j}x_{ijt}\leq ...
19 votes
4 answers
1k views

Applications of linear programming duality in combinatorics

So, I know that one can apply the strong LP duality theorem to specific instances of maximum flow problems to recover some nontrivial theorems in combinatorics, such as Hall's theorem, Koenig's ...
1 vote
1 answer
184 views

Do doubly infeasible Linear Programming problems always have doubly infeasible bases?

Consider a Linear Programming problem in dictionary form, $$\max\Big\{f^\pi+\!\!\!\sum_{j\in D(\pi)}\!\! d^\pi_jx_j~\Big|~\forall~i\!\in\!B(\pi)~~~ b^\pi_i+\!\!\!\sum_{j\in D(\pi)}\!\! G^\pi_{ij}x_j\...
1 vote
0 answers
187 views

Strong Duality of Mixed Integer Linear Program

The problem at hand is to optimize a mixed-integer linear program closely related to the maximum flow problem. I would like to reformulate the problem with its dual and I'm concerned with the ...
8 votes
0 answers
1k views

Infinite Linear Programming

I'm trying to prove optimality for a continuous linear program. That is, I have a linear program with an uncountable number of variables and constraints. I'm not sure how to demonstrate feasibility ...
5 votes
2 answers
584 views

Continuous Transportation Problem

Hi all, I'm trying to formulate an infinite linear program to prove optimality (via duality) for the Continuous Transportation Problem, e.g. the Kantorovich-Wasserstein distance. This is the ...
4 votes
2 answers
4k views

Dual Norm For Sum of 2-Norms

What is the dual of a norm that is the sum of two-norms? Specifically, say we have the following norm for $\mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^n$ and $\mathbf{A}_i \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ $\|\mathbf{x}\| = ...