| LRSLIB(1) | lrslib 7.1 | LRSLIB(1) |
lrslib: Convert between representations of convex polyhedra, remove redundant inequalities, convex hull computation, solve linear programs in exact precision, compute Nash-equibria in 2-person games.
lrs [input-file] [output-file]
redund [input-file] [output-file]
mpirun -np num-proc mplrs input-file [output-file] [options]
lrsnash [options] [input-file]
hvref/xvref [input-file]
A polyhedron can be described by a list of inequalities (H-representation) or as by a list of its vertices and extreme rays (V-representation). lrslib is a C library containing programs to manipulate these representations. All computations are done in exact arithmetic.
lrs converts an H-representation of a polyhedron to its V-representation and vice versa, known respectively as the vertex enumeration and facet enumeration problems (see Example (1) below). lrs can also be used to solve a linear program, remove linearities from a system, and extract a subset of columns.
redund removes redundant inequalities in an input H-representation and outputs the remaining inequalities. For a V-representation input it outputs all extreme points and extreme rays. Both outputs can be piped directly into lrs. redund is a link to lrs which performs these functions via the redund and redund_list options.
mplrs is Skip Jordan's parallel wrapper for lrs/redund.
lrsnash is Terje Lensberg's application of lrs for finding Nash-equilibria in 2-person games.
hvref/xvref produce a cross reference list between H- and V-representations.
From version 7.1 lrs/redund/mplrs use hybrid arithmetic with overflow checking, starting in 64bit integers, moving to 128bit (if available) and then GMP. Overflow checking is conservative to improve performance: eg. with 64 bit arithmetic, a*b triggers overflow if either a or b is at least 2^31, and a+b triggers an overflow if either a or b is at least 2^62. Typically problems that can be solved in 64bits run 3-4 times faster than with GMP and inputs solvable in 128bits run twice as fast as GMP.
Various arithmetic versions are available and can be built from the makefile:
User's guide for lrslib
David Avis <avis at cs dot mcgill dot ca >
| 2020.06.10 | July 2009 |