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Extremal Rays of a Cone

asked 2019-07-28 00:36:16 +0100

ElGalloNegro gravatar image

updated 2023-05-19 22:11:04 +0100

FrédéricC gravatar image

Can I use Sage to compute the subspace of a vector space that lies in non-negative real Euclidean space?

For example,

If I compute the nullspace of the matrix,
A =
[ [ 1 0 0 -1 0]
[-1 1 0 0 1]
[ 0 -1 1 0 0]
[ 0 0 -1 1 -1] ]

I get,
[1,1,1,1,0],[0,−1,−1,0,1]
as basis. Now I would like to restrict the solution space to only vectors with non-negative entries. I believe the two basis vectors I am looking for are,
[1,1,1,1,0],[1,0,0,1,1].

My program is written in Python, but I am not sure there is anything written for this sort of problem. Using the simplex method of linear programming (objective function set to zero) only spits out a single solution vector which seems to be the sum of the two I want. I ask here because I see some classes for cones and methods that gives the extremal rays, but it seems I already have to know the extremal rays to use that class.

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answered 2019-07-29 15:23:36 +0100

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Something like that

sage: P = Polyhedron(rays=[(1,0),(0,1)])
sage: P.intersection(Polyhedron(eqns=[[0,1,-1]]))
A 1-dimensional polyhedron in QQ^2 defined as the convex hull of 1 vertex and 1 ray
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Eventually, such cones will be readily constructible. See the ticket: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/26623

jipilab gravatar imagejipilab ( 2019-08-27 11:11:15 +0100 )edit

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