On packing and covering polyhedra in infinite dimensions

We consider the natural generalizations of packing and covering polyhedra in infinite dimensions, and study issues related to duality and integrality of extreme points for these sets. Using appropriate finite truncations we give conditions under which complementary slackness holds for primal/dual pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rademacher, Luis, Toriello, Alejandro, Vielma Centeno, Juan Pablo
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114829
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4335-7248
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Summary:We consider the natural generalizations of packing and covering polyhedra in infinite dimensions, and study issues related to duality and integrality of extreme points for these sets. Using appropriate finite truncations we give conditions under which complementary slackness holds for primal/dual pairs of the infinite linear programming problems associated with infinite packing and covering polyhedra. We also give conditions under which the extreme points are integral. We illustrate an application of our results on an infinite-horizon lot-sizing problem. Keywords: Covering polyhedron; Packing polyhedron; Infinite linear program; Complementary slackness; Integral extreme point