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The metric polytope is a \(\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} n \\ 2 \\ \end{array}} \right) \) -dimensional convex polytope defined by its 4 \(\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} n \\ 3 \\ \end{array}} \right) \) facets. The vertices of the metric polytope are known only up to n = 6, for n = 7 they number more than 60 000. The study of the metric polytope and its relatives (the metric cone, the cut polytope and the cut cone) is mainly motivated by their application to the maximum cut and multicommodity flow feasibility problems. We characterize the ridge graph of the metric polytope, i.e. the edge graph of its dual, and, as corollary, obtain that the diameter of the dual metric polytope is 2. For n ≥ 5, the edge graph of the metric polytope restricted to its integral vertices called cuts, and to some \(\left\{ {\frac{1}{3},\,\frac{2}{3}} \right\} \) -valued vertices called anticuts, is, besides the clique on the cuts, the bipartite double of the complement of the folded n-cube. We also give similar results for the metric cone, the cut polytope and the cut cone.
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Deza, A., Deza, M. (1994). The Ridge Graph of the Metric Polytope and Some Relatives. In: Bisztriczky, T., McMullen, P., Schneider, R., Weiss, A.I. (eds) Polytopes: Abstract, Convex and Computational. NATO ASI Series, vol 440. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0924-6_16
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