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Upper Bounds on the Maximal Number of Facets of 0/1-Polytopes

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Tamás Fleinera, 1, 2

Volker Kaibelb, 3, 4

Günter Rotec, 5, 6

a CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

b Fachbereich Mathematik, MA 7–1, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 136, D-10623 Berlin, Germany

c Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany


Received 16 July 1998; 
accepted 18 November 1998. ;
Available online 25 March 2002.

Abstract

We prove two new upper bounds on the number of facets that a d -dimensional 0/1-polytope can have. The first one is 2(d −  1)! +  2(d −  1) (which is the best one currently known for small dimensions), while the second one of O((d −  2)!) is the best known bound for large dimensions.

1 Supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

2 Email: tamas@cwi.nl

3 Partially supported by EU Esprit Long Term Research Project Nr. 20244 (ALCOM-IT) at the Universität zu Köln.

4 Email: kaibel@math.TU-Berlin.DE

5 Supported by the Spezialforschungsbereich Optimierung und Kontrolle, Projektbereich Diskrete Optimierung, at the Technische Universität Graz.

6 Email: rote@inf.fu-berlin.de


 
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