Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1143339 Operations Research Letters 2006 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

We provide analogues of Carathéodory's theorem for integer cones and apply our bounds to integer programming and to the cutting stock problem. In particular, we provide an NP certificate for the latter, whose existence has not been known so far.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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