On the Number of Faces of Certain Transportation Polytopes

نویسنده

  • Igor Pak
چکیده

Define the transportation polytope Tn,m to be a polytope of non-negative n×m matrices with row sums equal to m and column sums equal to n. We present a new recurrence relation for the numbers fk of the k-dimensional faces for the transportation polytope Tn,n+1. This gives an efficient algorithm for computing the numbers fk , which solves the problem known to be computationally hard in a general case.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Eur. J. Comb.

دوره 21  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000