Opera Tions Research Center Working Paper a New Algebraic Geometry Algorithm for Integer Programming Massachusetts Institute of Technology a New Algebraic Geometry Algorithm for Integer Programming a New Algebraic Geometry Algorithm for Integer Programming

We propose a new algorithm for solving integer programming (IP) problems that is based on ideas from algebraic geometry. The method provides a natural generalization of the Farkas lemma for IP, leads to a way of performing sensitivity analysis, offers a systematic enumeration of all feasible solutions, and gives structural information of the feasible set of a given IP. We provide several examples that offer insights on the algorithm and its properties.

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