Improving the LP bound of a MILP by dual concurrent branching and the relationship to cut generation methods

In this paper branching for attacking MILP is investigated. Under certain circumstances branches can be done concurrently. By introducing a new calculus it is shown there are restrictions for certain dual values and reduced costs. As a second unexpected result of this study a new class of cuts for MILP is found, which are defined by those values. This class is a superclass of all other classes of cuts. Furthermore the restrictions of the dual values and the reduced costs can be used for studying the addition of arbitraries inequalities.

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03.2011

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