IBP-EC
1996/02:
Rapport de Recherche EC /
EC research reports
45 pages - Mars/March 1996 -
Document en anglais.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: Minimal vertices of 2-edge connected polyhedra
Abstract : In this paper we study the extreme points of the polytope P(G), the linear relaxation of the 2-edge connected spanning subgraph polytope of a graph G. We introduce an ordering on the extreme points of P(G), and we characterize the minimal fractional extreme points with respect to that ordering. We show that a fractional extreme point x of P(G) is minimal if and only if G can be reduced (by means of some reduction operations) to a graph belonging to a specific class of graphs. As a consequence we obtain a characterization for perfectly 2-edge connected graphs, the graphs for which P(G) is integral.