Volume of Parameterized Polyhedra

Hoon Hong, Manfred Minimair

Date: July 19th (Friday)
Time: 16:00-16:30
Abstract
In this talk, we study the problem of computing the volume of the polyhedron defined by a given system of linear equalities. In fact, we study a parametric version of the problem: given a parametric system of linear inequalities, to find an expression (in the parameters) for the volume.

This problem naturally arise in automatic parallelization of programs (in particular vectorization of loops). It is also needed in computer aided design, where some mechanical parts are modeled by polyhedron and we need to know their volumes for cost/weight computation.

We describe an algorithm (improvement/completion of the previous algorithms). It essentially carries out recursion on the variables, where each recursion consists of projection (variables elimination) and lifting (symbolic integration in suitable measure). In order to control the huge intermediate result swell, inconsistent and redundant computational branches are detected and eliminated.

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