bibtype V - Research Report
ARLID 0600173
utime 20241107153915.3
mtime 20241104235959.9
title (primary) (eng) On combinatorial descriptions of faces of the cone of supermodular functions
publisher
place Praha
name UTIA AV CR
pub_time 2024
specification
page_count 47 s.
edition
name Research Report
volume_id 2397
keyword supermodular/submodular game
keyword face lattice
keyword generalized permutohedron
keyword rank test
keyword core structure
keyword conditional independence
keyword structural semi-graphoid
keyword polymatroid
author (primary)
ARLID cav_un_auth*0101202
name1 Studený
name2 Milan
institution UTIA-B
full_dept (cz) Matematická teorie rozhodování
full_dept (eng) Department of Decision Making Theory
department (cz) MTR
department (eng) MTR
full_dept Department of Decision Making Theory
fullinstit Ústav teorie informace a automatizace AV ČR, v. v. i.
source
url https://library.utia.cas.cz/separaty/2024/MTR/studeny-0600173.pdf
source
url www.arxiv.org/abs/2410.19454
cas_special
abstract (eng) This paper is to relate five different ways of combinatorial description of non-empty faces of the cone of supermodular functions on the power set of a finite basic set N. Instead of this cone we consider its subcone of supermodular games; it is also a polyhedral cone and has the same (= isomorphic) lattice of faces. This step allows one to associate supermodular games with certain polytopes in N-dimensional real Euclidean space, known as cores (of these games) in context of cooperative game theory, or generalized permutohedra in context of polyhedral geometry. Non-empty faces of the supermodular cone then correspond to normal fans of those polytopes. This (basically) geometric way of description of faces of the cone then leads to the combinatorial ways of their description.\n\nThe first combinatorial way is to identify the faces with certain partitions of the set of enumerations of N, known as rank tests in context of algebraic statistics. The second combinatorial way is to identify faces with certain collections of posets on N, known as (complete) fans of posets in context of polyhedral geometry. The third combinatorial way is to identify the faces with certain coverings of the power set of N, introduced relatively recently in context of cooperative game theory under name core structures. The fourth combinatorial way is to identify the faces with certain formal conditional independence structures, introduced formerly in context of multivariate statistics under name structural semi-graphoids.\nThe fifth way is to identify the faces with certain subgraphs of the permutohedral graph, whose nodes are enumerations of N. We prove the equivalence of those six ways of description of non-empty faces of the supermodular cone. This result also allows one to describe the faces of the polyhedral cone of (rank functions of) polymatroids over N and the faces of the submodular cone over N: this is because these cones have the same face lattice as the supermodular cone over N. The respective polytopes are known as base polytopes in context of optimization and (poly)matroid theory.
RIV BA
reportyear 2025
num_of_auth 1
inst_support RVO:67985556
permalink https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0357784
confidential S
arlyear 2024
mrcbU10 2024
mrcbU10 Praha UTIA AV CR