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arxiv: 1308.0454 · v2 · pith:KLWX5PF6new · submitted 2013-08-02 · 🧮 math.CO · math.OC

Tropicalizing the simplex algorithm

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We develop a tropical analog of the simplex algorithm for linear programming. In particular, we obtain a combinatorial algorithm to perform one tropical pivoting step, including the computation of reduced costs, in O(n(m+n)) time, where m is the number of constraints and n is the dimension.

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