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Combinatorial optimization typically deals with optimizing over a finite set of objects that have some combinatorial structure (e.g. trees, matchings, matroids). Approximation algorithms, polyhedral methods, and integer programming are all on topic.

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Electricity division and bin packing

Let us show that a required $k$-times bin-packing exists for some $k\le n^{n/2}$. Let $V=\{(v_1,\dots,v_n)\in\{0,1\}^n:\sum_{i=1}^n d_iv_i\le s\}$ be the set of all admissible "bin packings". Then the …
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Desargues ten point configuration $D_{10}$ in LaTeX

This example shows that $s\le 2$ and for this $s$, $c\le 3$. Note that we are lucky with the latter, because there is a configuration for which every combinatorially equivalent realization has at lea …
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Transforming an optimization problem to maxmin formulation

This answer is partial. We assume that all $a_i$ are non-negative. Put $A=\tfrac 1m \sum a_i$ and $A_j=\sum_{i\in S_j} a_i$. We want to maximize $\Pi=\prod A_j$. But by AM-GM inequality, $P^{1/m}\le …
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Tighter lower bound of the lower triangular sum of an arbitrary Latin square

For each $1\le i\le n-1$ the sum of numbers of $i$-th column of the lower triangle $\Delta$ below the main diagonal is at least $1+\dots+i=i(i+1)/2$. Thus the sum of all numbers in $\Delta$ is at leas …
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