(1) Laboratoire d'Econométrie, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France;(2) Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, USA;(3) Département de Mathématiques, Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract:
A bound is given for the average length of a lexicographic path, a definition that is motivated by degeneracies encountered when using the randomized simplex method.