research article
On Sub-determinants and the Diameter of Polyhedra
We derive a new upper bound on the diameter of a polyhedron , where . The bound is polynomial in and the largest absolute value of a sub-determinant of , denoted by . More precisely, we show that the diameter of is bounded by . If is bounded, then we show that the diameter of is at most . For the special case in which is a totally unimodular matrix, the bounds are and respectively. This improves over the previous best bound of due to Dyer and Frieze (Math Program 64:1-16, 1994).
Type
research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000339382600006
Date Issued
2014
Publisher
Published in
Volume
52
Issue
1
Start page
102
End page
115
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Editorial or Peer reviewed
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EPFL
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August 29, 2014
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