Abstract
AbstractFor an integer linear optimization (ILO) problem, persistency of its linear optimization (LO) relaxation is a property that for every optimal solution of the relaxation that assigns integer values to some variables, there exists an optimal solution of the ILO problem in which these variables retain the same values. Although persistency has been used to develop heuristic, approximation, and fixed-parameter algorithms for special cases of ILO, its applicability remains unknown in the literature. In this paper, we propose a stronger property called neighborhood persistency and show that the LO relaxation of ILO on unit-two-variable-per-inequality (UTVPI) systems is a maximal class of ILO such that its LO relaxation has (neighborhood) persistency. Our result on neighborhood persistency generalizes the previous results of Nemhauser and Trotter, Hochbaum et al., and Fiorini et al., and implies fixed-parameter tractability and two-approximability for ILO on UTVPI systems where the objective function and the variables are non-negative.KeywordsInteger linear optimizationLinear optimizationUnit-two-variable-per-inequality systemPersistency
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