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The Generalized Baues Problem asks whether for a given point configuration the order complex of all its proper polyhedral subdivisions, partially ordered by refinement, is homotopy equivalent to a sphere. In this paper, an affirmative answer is given for the vertex sets of cyclic polytopes in all dimensions. This yields the first non-trivial class of point configurations with neither a bound on the dimension, the codimension, nor the number of vertice for which this is known to be true. Moreover, it is shown that all triangulations of cyclic polytopes are lifting triangulations. This contrasts the fact that in general there are many non-regular triangulations of cyclic polytopes. Beyond this, we find triangulations of $C(11,5)$ with flip deficiency. This proves---among other things---that there are triangulations of cyclic polytopes that are non-regular for every choice of points on the moment curve.
All triangulations of euclidean oriented matroids are of the same PL-homeomorphism type by a result of Anderson. That means all triangulations of euclidean acyclic oriented matroids are PL-homeomorphic to PL-balls and that all triangulations of totally cyclic oriented matroids are PL-homeomorphic to PL-spheres. For non-euclidean oriented matroids this question is wide open. One key point in the proof of Anderson is the following fact: for every triangulation of a euclidean oriented matroid the adjacency graph of the set of all simplices ``intersecting'' a segment $[p_-p_+]$ is a path. We call this graph the $[p_-p_+]$-adjacency graph of the triangulation. While we cannot solve the problem of the topological type of triangulations of general oriented matroids we show in this note that for every circuit admissible triangulation of an arbitrary oriented matroid the $[p_-p_+]$-adjacency graph is a path.
Dieser Report wurde im Sommersemester 2000 an der TU Berlin in einer Spezialvorlesung über Triangulierungen von Punktmengen und Polyedern als Skriptum verwendet. Nach einem motivierenden Kapitel werden grundlegende Begriffe und Konstruktionen in der Theorie der Triangulierungen von Punktmengen und Polyedern vorgestellt. Danach werden als weiterführende Themen reguläre Triangulierungen, Sekundärpolytope, bistellare Operationen, höhere Stasheff-Tamari-Halbordnungen und Triangulierungen mit wenigen bzw. gar keinen Flips behandelt. Ein Kapitel über Enumeration und Optimierung beschließt die Zusammenstellung.
TOPCOM is a package for computing triangulations of point configurations and oriented matroids. For example, for a point configuration one can compute the chirotope, components of the flip graph of triangulations, enumerate all triangulations. The core algorithms implemented in TOPCOM are described, and implentation issues are discussed.
The present dissertation deals with the structure of polyhedral subdivisions of point configurations. Of particular interest are the global properties of the set of all subdivisions of a given point configuration. An important open problem in this context is the following: can one always transform any triangulation of a given point configuration to any other triangulation of the same configuration by means of bistellar operations? In other words, is the set of all triangulations of a given point configuration always bistellarly connected? The results presented in this thesis contribute progress from two directions. \begin{itemize} \item The set of all subdivisions that are induced by a polytope projection is in general not bistellarly connected in a generalized sense. This result is obtained by constructing a counterexample to the so-called Generalized Baues Conjecture.'' \item The set of all triangulations of a cyclic polytope forms a bounded poset. The covering relations are given by increasing bistellar operations. Thus we get an affirmative answer to the above question in the case of cyclic polytopes. \end{itemize} In the introduction, the mathematical environment of the structures under consideration is illuminated. The "Generalized Baues Conjecture" has connections to various mathematical concepts, such as combinatorial models for loop spaces, discriminants of polynomials in several variables, etc. The triangulation posets of cyclic polytopes are natural generalizations of the well-studied Tamari lattices in order theory. Moreover, there is a connection to the higher Bruhat orders, which have similar structural properties. As a by-product, the investigations yield the shellability of all triangulations of cyclic polytopes without new vertices. This is in particular interesting because most triangulations of cyclic polytopes are non-regular.
Oriented matroids are combinatorial structures that encode the combinatorics of point configurations. The set of all triangulations of a point configuration depends only on its oriented matroid. We survey the most important ingredients necessary to exploit oriented matroids as a data structure for computing all triangulations of a point configuration, and report on experience with an implementation of these concepts in the software package TOPCOM. Next, we briefly overview the construction and an application of the secondary polytope of a point configuration, and calculate some examples illustrating how our tools were integrated into the {\sc polymake} framework.
In the Capacitated Dial-a-Ride Problem (CDARP) we are given a transportation network and a finite set of transportation jobs. Each job specifies the source and target location which are both part of the network. A server which can carry at most $C$~objects at a time can move on the transportation network in order to process the transportation requests. The problem CDARP consists of finding a shortest transportation for the jobs starting and ending at a designated start location. In this paper we are concerned with the restriction of CDARP to graphs which are simple paths. This setting arises for instance when modelling applications in elevator transportation systems. It is known that even for this restricted class of graphs CDARP is NP-hard to solve. We provide a polynomial time approximation algorithm that finds a transportion of length at most thrice the length of the optimal transportation.
Given a set of service requests (events), a set of guided servers (units), and a set of unguided service contractors (conts), the vehicle dispatching problem {\sl vdp} is the task to find an assignment of events to units and conts as well as tours for all units starting at their current positions and ending at their home positions (dispatch) such that the total cost of the dispatch is minimized. The cost of a dispatch is the sum of unit costs, cont costs, and event costs. Unit costs consist of driving costs, service costs and overtime costs; cont costs consist of a fixed cost per service; event costs consist of late costs linear in the late time, which occur whenever the service of the event starts later than its deadline. The program \textsf{ZIBDIP} based on dynamic column generation and set partitioning yields solutions on heavy-load real-world instances (215 events, 95 units) in less than a minute that are no worse than 1\% from optimum on state-of-the-art personal computers.
Online Optimierung
(2000)
Wie soll man einen Aufzug steuern, wenn man keine Informationen über zukünftige Fahraufträge besitzt? Soll man eine Bahncard kaufen, wenn die nächsten Bahnreisen noch unbekannt sind? In der klassischen kombinatorischen Optimierung geht man davon aus, daß die Daten jeder Probleminstanz vollständig gegeben sind. In vielen Fällen modelliert diese \emph{Offline-Optimierung} jedoch die Situationen aus Anwendungen nur ungenügend. Zahlreiche Problemstellungen in der Praxis sind in natürlicher Weise \emph{online}: Sie erfordern Entscheidungen, die unmittelbar und ohne Wissen zukünftiger Ereignisse getroffen werden müssen. Als ein Standardmittel zur Beurteilung von Online-Algorithmen hat sich die \emph{kompetitive Analyse} durchgesetzt. Dabei vergleicht man den Zielfunktionswert einer vom Online-Algorithmus generierten Lösung mit dem Wert einer optimalen Offline-Lösung. Mit Hilfe der kompetitiven Analyse werden im Skript Algorithmen zum Caching, Netzwerk-Routing, Scheduling und zu Transportaufgaben untersucht. Auch die Schwächen der kompetitiven Analyse werden aufgezeigt und alternative Analysekonzepte vorgestellt. Neben der theoretischen Seite werden auch die Anwendungen der Online-Optimierung in der Praxis, vor allem bei Problemen der innerbetrieblichen Logistik, beleuchtet. Bei der Steuerung automatischer Transportsysteme tritt eine Fülle von Online-Problemen auf. Hierbei werden an die Algorithmen oftmals weitere Anforderungen gestellt. So müssen Entscheidungen unter strikten Zeitbeschränkungen gefällt werden (Echtzeit-Anforderungen). Dieses Skript ist aus dem Online-Teil der Vorlesung -Ausgewählte Kapitel aus der ganzzahligen Optimierung- (Wintersemester~1999/2000) und der Vorlesung -Online Optimierung- (Sommersemester~2000) an der Technischen Universität Berlin entstanden.