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Linear Programming Lecture Notes - Penn State Personal Web Server

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egions are polyhedral sets 1 . Certain examples have a very nice geometric visualization.<br />

Consider the problem:<br />

(9.31)<br />

⎧<br />

⎪⎨<br />

⎪⎩<br />

max 6x1 + 6x2<br />

s.t. 3x1 + 2x2 ≤ 6<br />

2x1 + 3x2 ≤ 6<br />

x1, x2 ≥ 0<br />

In this problem we have:<br />

<br />

3<br />

A =<br />

2<br />

<br />

2<br />

3<br />

c = 6 6 b =<br />

<br />

6<br />

6<br />

Notice that A is a symmetric matrix and cT = b and the dual problem is:<br />

⎧<br />

min 6w1 + 6w2<br />

⎪⎨ s.t. 3w1 + 2w2 ≥ 6<br />

(9.32)<br />

2w1 + 3w2 ≤ 6<br />

⎪⎩<br />

w1, w2 ≥ 0<br />

This results in a geometry in which the dual feasible region is a reflection of the primal<br />

feasible region (ignoring non-negativity constraints). This is illustrated in Figure 9.1.<br />

Figure 9.1. The dual feasible region in this problem is a mirror image (almost) of<br />

the primal feasible region. This occurs when the right-hand-side vector b is equal to<br />

the objective function coefficient column vector c T and the matrix A is symmetric.<br />

1 Thanks for Michael Cline for suggesting this section.<br />

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