Discrete and Computational Geometry. Algorithms and Combinatorics
Series volume:
25
Place of publication:
Berlin ; Heidelberg
Publisher:
Springer
Year:
2003
Pages from - to:
301-311
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
The present paper introduces the geometric rank as a measure for the quality of relaxations of certain combinatorial optimization problems in the realm of polyhedral combinatorics. In particular, this notion establishes a tight relation between the maximum stable set problem from combinatorial optimization, polynomial programming from integer non linear programming and norm maximization, a basic problem from convex maximization and computational convexity.