On the curvature of the central path of linear programming theory

In this paper we study the curvature of the central path of linear programming
theory. Our ultimate goal is to show that the total curvature of the path is poly-nomial
in m and n the numbers of linear constraints and variables respectively.

By: Jean-Pierre Dedieu, Michael Shub

Published in: RC22772 in 2003

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