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On the \(p\)-median polytope and the intersection property: polyhedra and algorithms. (English) Zbl 1226.90083

Summary: We study a prize-collecting version of the uncapacitated facility location problem and of the \(p\)-median problem. We say that the uncapacitated facility location polytope has the intersection property if adding the extra equation that fixes the number of opened facilities does not create any fractional extreme point. We characterize the graphs for which this polytope has the intersection property and give a complete description of the polytope for this class of graphs. This characterization yields a polynomial time cutting plane algorithm for these graphs. We also give a combinatorial polynomial time algorithm to solve the different variants of the \(p\)-median and facility location problems studied in this paper.

MSC:

90C27 Combinatorial optimization
90C57 Polyhedral combinatorics, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut
90B80 Discrete location and assignment
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