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Driving from degeneracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Neil Cameron
Neil Cameron
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
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Abstract

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A method is proposed for driving degenerate feasible solutions to linear programming problems away from essential degeneracy and in particular for identifying essentially degenerate optimal solutions. An essentially degenerate cycling example is also given, so answering a question raised earlier.

MSC classification

Secondary: 90C05: Linear programming 90C06: Large-scale problems 65K05: Mathematical programming methods
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , October 1989 , pp. 236 - 239
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1989

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