On the Rate of Change in the Solution Set of a Perturbed Linear Program.

Abstract

The paper finds bounds for the displacement in the solution set of a system of linear inequalities caused by perturbations in the coefficient matrix and/or the right-hand side, and these are applied to estimate the error in the optimal variables of a perturbed linear program. The main result is that if a superconsistent linear program is subjected to a sequence of perturbations approaching zero, for which a uniformly bounded sequence of (primal) solutions to the perturbed programs exists, then the distances from those solutions to the solution set of the unperturbed program are of the large order of the perturbations. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0729277

Entities

People

  • Stephen M. Robinson

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Displacement
  • Inequalities
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematics
  • Perturbations
  • Sequences

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Operations Research