Some Abstract Pivot Algorithms

Several problems in the theory of combinatorial geometries (or matroids) are solved by means of algorithms which involve the notion of "abstract pivots". The main example is the Edmonds-Fulkerson partition theorem, which is applied to prove a number of generalized exchange properties for b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Green, Curtis, Magnanti, Thomas L.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5113