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Polyhedral results and stronger Lagrangean bounds for stable spanning trees
Phillippe Samer, Dag Haugland
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Given a graph G=(V,E) and a set C of unordered pairs of edges regarded as being in conflict, a stable spanning tree in G is a set of edges T inducing a spanning tree in G, such that for each {eᵢ, eⱼ }∈C, at most one of the edges eᵢ and eⱼ is in T. The existing work on Lagrangean algorithms to the NP-hard problem of finding minimum weight stable spanning trees is limited to relaxations with the integrality property. We exploit a new relaxation of this problem: fixed cardinality stable sets in the underlying conflict graph H =(E,C). We find interesting properties of the corresponding polytope, and determine stronger dual bounds in a Lagrangean decomposition framework, optimizing over the spanning tree polytope of G and the fixed cardinality stable set polytope of H in the subproblems. This is equivalent to dualizing exponentially many subtour elimination constraints, while limiting the number of multipliers in the dual problem to |E|. It is also a proof of concept for combining Lagrangean relaxation with the power of MILP solvers over strongly NP-hard subproblems. We present encouraging computational results using a dual method that comprises the Volume Algorithm, initialized with multipliers determined by Lagrangean dual-ascent. In particular, the bound is within 5.5% of the optimum in 146 out of 200 benchmark instances; it actually matches the optimum in 75 cases. All of the implementation is made available in a free, open-source repository.
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