Title
Deciding uniqueness in norm maximization
Abstract
NP-hardness is established for the problem whose instance is a system of linear inequalities defining a polytopeP, and whose question is whether, onP, the global maximum of the Euclidean norm is attained at more than one vertex ofP. The NP-hardness persists even for the restricted problem in whichP is a full-dimensional parallelotope with one vertex at the origin. This makes it possible to establish NP-hardness for other uniqueness problems, including some from pseudoboolean programming and computational convexity.
Year
DOI
Venue
1992
10.1007/BF01581081
Math. Program.
Keywords
Field
DocType
circumradius.,polytope,diameter,norm,quadratic programming,width,unique optimum,global optimization,inradius,norm maximization,np-hardness,parallelotope,quadratic program,circumradius
Uniqueness,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Mathematical optimization,Convexity,Vertex (geometry),Uniqueness theorem for Poisson's equation,Euclidean distance,Quadratic programming,Linear inequality,Maximization,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
2
1436-4646
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.44
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Gritzmann141246.93
Victor Klee216917.23