We introduce the simple extension complexity of a polytope P as the smallest number of facets of any simple (i.e., non-degenerate in the sense of linear programming) polytope which can be projected onto P. We devise a combinatorial method to establish lower bounds on the simple extension complexity and show for several polytopes that they have large simple extension complexities. These examples include both the spanning tree and the perfect matching polytopes of complete graphs, uncapacitated flow polytopes for non-trivially decomposable directed acyclic graphs, and random 0/1-polytopes with vertex numbers within a certain range. On our way to obtain the result on perfect matching polytopes we improve on a result of Padberg and Rao's on the adjacency structures of those polytopes. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
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Kaibel, V., & Walter, M. (2014). Simple extensions of polytopes. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8494 LNCS, pp. 309–320). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07557-0_26
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