Discrete Optimization

Convex Analysis and Duality over Discrete Domains

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  • 1 Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Fayetteville State University,Fayetteville, NC 28301, USA
    2 Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, North Carolina State University,Raleigh, NC 27695-7906, USA

Online published: 2018-06-30

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This work has been supported by US Army Research Office Grant (No. W911NF-15-1-0223) and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Grant (No. 1059B191300653).

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to establish a fundamental theory of convex analysis for the sets and functions over a discrete domain. By introducing conjugate/biconjugate functions and a discrete duality notion for the cones over discrete domains, we study duals of optimization problems whose decision parameters are integers. In particular, we construct duality theory for integer linear programming, provide a discrete version of Slater’s condition that implies the strong duality and discuss the relationship between
integrality and discrete convexity.

Cite this article

Murat Adivar, Shu-Cherng Fang . Convex Analysis and Duality over Discrete Domains[J]. Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, 2018 , 6(2) : 189 -247 . DOI: 10.1007/s40305-017-0158-2

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