Linear Programming Duality: An Introduction to Oriented Matroids
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Main Author: Bachem, Achim 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1992
Series:Universitext
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:The main theorem of Linear Programming Duality, relating a "primal" Linear Programming problem to its "dual" and vice versa, can be seen as a statement about sign patterns of vectors in complementary subspaces of Rn. This observation, first made by R.T. Rockafellar in the late sixties, led to the introduction of certain systems of sign vectors, called "oriented matroids". Indeed, when oriented matroids came into being in the early seventies, one of the main issues was to study the fundamental principles underlying Linear Programming Duality in this abstract setting. In the present book we tried to follow this approach, i.e., rather than starting out from ordinary (unoriented) matroid theory, we preferred to develop oriented matroids directly as appropriate abstractions of linear subspaces. Thus, the way we introduce oriented matroids makes clear that these structures are the most general -and hence, the most simple -ones in which Linear Programming Duality results can be stated and proved. We hope that this helps to get a better understanding of LP-Duality for those who have learned about it before und a good introduction for those who have not
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (IV, 216p. 40 illus)
ISBN:9783642581526
9783540554172
ISSN:0172-5939
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-58152-6

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