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020 _a5206
020 _a9783832552060
024 7 _a10.30819/5206
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041 0 _aEnglish
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072 7 _aPBT
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100 1 _aVincent Hopp, Alexander
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245 1 0 _aThe Complexity of Zadeh's Pivot Rule
260 _aBerlin/Germany
_bLogos Verlag Berlin
_c2020
300 _a1 electronic resource (335 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aThe Simplex algorithm is one of the most important algorithms in discrete optimization, and is the most used algorithm for solving linear programs in practice. In the last 50 years, several pivot rules for this algorithm have been proposed and studied. For most deterministic pivot rules, exponential lower bounds were found, while a probabilistic pivot rule exists that guarantees termination in expected subexponential time. One deterministic pivot rule that is of special interest is Zadeh's pivot rule since it was the most promising candidate for a polynomial pivot rule for a long time. In 2011, Friedmann proved that this is not true by providing an example forcing the Simplex algorithm to perform at least a subexponential number of iterations in the worst case when using Zadeh's pivot rule. Still, it was not known whether Zadeh's pivot rule might achieve subexponential worst case running time. Next to analyzing Friedmann's construction in detail, we develop the first exponential lower bound for Zadeh's pivot rule. This closes a long-standing open problem by ruling out this pivot rule as a candidate for a deterministic, subexponential pivot rule in several areas of linear optimization and game theory.
540 _aCreative Commons
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_4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aProbability & statistics
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653 _aOptimierung, Optimization
653 _aKomplexität, Complexity
653 _aLineare Programmierung, Linear programming
653 _aSimplexalgorithmus, Simplex algorithm
653 _aPivotregel, Pvot rule
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