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The Integrality Number of an Integer Program

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We introduce the integrality number of an integer program (IP) in inequality form. Roughly speaking, the integrality number is the smallest number of integer constraints needed to solve an IP via a mixed integer (MIP) relaxation. One notable property of this number is its invariance under unimodular transformations of the constraint matrix. Considering the largest minor $\Delta$ of the constraint matrix, our analysis allows us to make statements of the following form: there exist numbers $\tau(\Delta)$ and $\kappa(\Delta)$ such that an IP with $n\geq \tau(\Delta)$ many variables and $n + \kappa(\Delta)\cdot \sqrt{n}$ many inequality constraints can be solved via a MIP relaxation with fewer than $n$ integer constraints. From our results it follows that IPs defined by only $n$ constraints can be solved via a MIP relaxation with $O(\sqrt{\Delta})$ many integer constraints.

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