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Slack variables give an embedding of a polytope into the standard f-orthant, where is the number of constraints (facets of the polytope). This map is one-to-one (slack variables are uniquely determined) but not onto (not all combinations can be realized), and is expressed in terms of the constraints (linear functionals, covectors).
with v the Lagrange multipliers on the non-negativity constraints, λ the multipliers on the inequality constraints, and s the slack variables for the inequality constraints. The fourth condition derives from the complementarity of each group of variables (x, s) with its set of KKT vectors (optimal Lagrange multipliers) being (v, λ). In that case,
For any greater-than constraints, introduce surplus s i and artificial variables a i (as shown below). Choose a large positive Value M and introduce a term in the objective of the form −M multiplying the artificial variables. For less-than or equal constraints, introduce slack variables s i so that all constraints are equalities.
So if the i-th slack variable of the primal is not zero, then the i-th variable of the dual is equal to zero. Likewise, if the j-th slack variable of the dual is not zero, then the j-th variable of the primal is equal to zero. This necessary condition for optimality conveys a fairly simple economic principle.
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A BFS can have less than m non-zero variables; in that case, it can have many different bases, all of which contain the indices of its non-zero variables. 3. A feasible solution x {\displaystyle \mathbf {x} } is basic if-and-only-if the columns of the matrix A K {\displaystyle A_{K}} are linearly independent, where K is the set of indices of ...
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