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Integer Programming and Incidence Treedepth

Eduard Eiben·Robert Ganian·Dušan Knop·Sebastian Ordyniak·Michał Pilipczuk·Marcin Wrochna
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Recently a strong connection has been shown between the tractability of integer programming (IP) with bounded coefficients on the one side and the structure of its constraint matrix on the other side. To that end, integer linear programming is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to the primal (or dual) treedepth of the Gaifman graph of its constraint matrix and the largest coefficient (in absolute value). Motivated by this, Kouteck\'y, Levin, and Onn [ICALP 2018] asked whether it is possible to extend these result to a more broader class of integer linear programs. More formally, is integer linear programming fixed-parameter tractable with respect to the incidence treedepth of its constraint matrix and the largest coefficient (in absolute value)? We answer this question in negative. In particular, we prove that deciding the feasibility of a system in the standard form, ${A\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{b}}, {\mathbf{l} \le \mathbf{x} \le \mathbf{u}}$, is $\mathsf{NP}$-hard even when the absolute value of any coefficient in $A$ is 1 and the incidence treedepth of $A$ is 5. Consequently, it is not possible to decide feasibility in polynomial time even if both the assumed parameters are constant, unless $\mathsf{P}=\mathsf{NP}$. Moreover, we complement this intractability result by showing tractability for natural and only slightly more restrictive settings, namely: (1) treedepth with an additional bound on either the maximum arity of constraints or the maximum number of occurrences of variables and (2) the vertex cover number.

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Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Dušan Knop, Sebastian Ordyniak, Michał Pilipczuk, Marcin Wrochna. 2020-11-30. Integer Programming and Incidence Treedepth. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00079

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