Probability of unique integer solution to a system of linear equations
We consider a system of m linear equations in n variables Ax = d and give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique solution to the system that is integer: x [set membership, variant] {-1, 1}n. We achieve this by reformulating the problem as a linear program and deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for the integer solution to be the unique primal optimal solution. We show that as long as m is larger than n/2, then the linear programming reformulation succeeds for most instances, but if m is less than n/2, the reformulation fails on most instances. We also demonstrate that these predictions match the empirical performance of the linear programming formulation to very high accuracy.
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2011
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Authors: | Mangasarian, O.L. ; Recht, Benjamin |
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European Journal of Operational Research. - Elsevier, ISSN 0377-2217. - Vol. 214.2011, 1, p. 27-30
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Unique integer solution Linear equations Linear programming |
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