A Cutting Plane SDP Method for Maxcut Problems

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Authors:

Kartik Krishnan and John E. Mitchell
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180 USA
kartis@rpi.edu and mitchj@rpi.edu

August 3, 2002.

Given at the McMaster Optimization Conference, 2002

Abstract:

We investigate solution of the maximum cut problem using a semidefinite programming approach. The dual of the well-known SDP relaxation of maxcut is formulated as a semi-infinite linear programming problem, which is solved with a cutting plane algorithm. Cutting planes based on the polyhedral theory of the maxcut problem are then added to the primal problem in order to improve the SDP relaxation. Computational results are provided.

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