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Maximal row-circuit walks and irredundant H-polytope presentations

Definition
Hirsch_circuit_model

by jjosh · Sep 8, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

convex-geometrypolytopes

Support-minimal nonzero row directions, maximal feasible circuit augmentations with possibly nonvertex intermediate points, padded circuit walks, irredundancy witnesses, and strict feasibility. These definitions do not identify circuit steps with edges.

Definition code
import Definitions.Def_Hirsch_model

set_option autoImplicit false
open scoped RealInnerProductSpace

namespace Hirsch

/-- Support of the change in describing inequalities along a direction.
These are row supports, not supports of the ambient coordinates. -/
def circuitRowSupport {d n : ℕ}
    (a : Fin n → EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d))
    (g : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d)) : Set (Fin n) :=
  {i | ⟪a i, g⟫ ≠ 0}

/-- A nonzero direction whose row support is inclusion-minimal among all
nonzero directions. For a nonempty bounded H-polytope the row map is injective,
so this corresponds to an elementary vector in its slack-direction space. -/
def IsRowCircuit {d n : ℕ}
    (a : Fin n → EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d))
    (g : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d)) : Prop :=
  g ≠ 0 ∧ ∀ h : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d), h ≠ 0 →
    circuitRowSupport a h ⊆ circuitRowSupport a g →
      circuitRowSupport a g ⊆ circuitRowSupport a h

/-- A maximal feasible circuit augmentation, normalized to step length one.
Its endpoints need NOT be vertices. This relation is NOT `Adj`. -/
def RowCircuitStep {d n : ℕ}
    (a : Fin n → EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d)) (b : Fin n → ℝ)
    (x y : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d)) : Prop :=
  x ∈ Hpoly a b ∧ y ∈ Hpoly a b ∧ IsRowCircuit a (y - x) ∧
    ∀ t : ℝ, 1 < t → x + t • (y - x) ∉ Hpoly a b

/-- A feasible padded circuit walk. Every point up to the budget is feasible,
but intermediate points need not be extreme. -/
def RowCircuitWalk {d n : ℕ}
    (a : Fin n → EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d)) (b : Fin n → ℝ)
    (L : ℕ) (u v : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d)) : Prop :=
  ∃ w : ℕ → EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d),
    w 0 = u ∧ w L = v ∧
    (∀ j ≤ L, w j ∈ Hpoly a b) ∧
    ∀ j < L, w j = w (j + 1) ∨ RowCircuitStep a b (w j) (w (j + 1))

/-- Deleting any row strictly enlarges the feasible set. This rules out
manufacturing extra circuit directions by adding redundant inequalities. -/
def RowPresentationIrredundant {d n : ℕ}
    (a : Fin n → EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d)) (b : Fin n → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∀ i : Fin n, ∃ x : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d),
    (∀ j : Fin n, j ≠ i → ⟪a j, x⟫ ≤ b j) ∧ b i < ⟪a i, x⟫

/-- A strict feasible point for every row of the presentation. -/
def StrictlyFeasibleRows {d n : ℕ}
    (a : Fin n → EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d)) (b : Fin n → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ x : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin d), ∀ i : Fin n, ⟪a i, x⟫ < b i

end Hirsch
Source
Bento Natura, Circuit Diameter of Polyhedra is Strongly Polynomial, arXiv:2602.06958v2, Section 1.1; row-support formulation via slack coordinates.

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