A counterexample to a ‘simplex algorithm’ for convex bodies

Geometriae Dedicata - Tập 11 - Trang 475-488 - 1981
S. Gallivan1, R. J. Gardner2
1Department of Mathematics, University College London, England
2Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Tóm tắt

A counterexample, in E 3, is given to the following conjecture. Suppose f * is a linear functional, and e an exposed point of a convex body K such that f * does not attain its maximum on K at e; then there is an f *-strictly increasing path in the one-skeleton of K emanating from e. The counterexample shows that a certain generalized ‘simplex algorithm’ fails. Furthermore for a different linear functional f, there are no three disjoint f-strictly increasing paths in the one-skeleton of K leading to e.

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