Orbit-finite Linear Programming
An infinite set is orbit-finite if, up to permutations of atoms, it has only finitely many elements. We study a generalisation of linear programming where constraints are expressed by an orbit-finite system of linear inequalities. As our principal contribution we provide a decision procedure for checking if such a system has a real solution, and for computing the minimal/maximal value of a linear objective function over the solution set. We also show undecidability of these problems in case when only integer solutions are considered. Therefore orbit-finite linear programming is decidable, while orbit-finite integer linear programming is not.
Authors
- Piotr Hofman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9866-3723)
- Arka Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3839-8459)
- Sławomir Lasota (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8674-4470)
Institutions
- University of Warsaw (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the ACM
- Published
- 2024-11-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3703909
- Primary Topic
- Optimization and Search Problems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00