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Duality and Complementary Slackness

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In this chapter, we will develop the concept of duality, as well as the related theorem of complementary slackness which not only tells us when we have optimal solutions, but also leads us to the Dual Simplex Method.

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Hu, T.C., Kahng, A.B. (2016). Duality and Complementary Slackness. In: Linear and Integer Programming Made Easy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24001-5_5

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