Farkas' Lemma and Motzkin's Transposition Theorem

Ralph Bottesch, Max W. Haslbeck and René Thiemann

17 January 2019

Abstract

We formalize a proof of Motzkin's transposition theorem and Farkas' lemma in Isabelle/HOL. Our proof is based on the formalization of the simplex algorithm which, given a set of linear constraints, either returns a satisfying assignment to the problem or detects unsatisfiability. By reusing facts about the simplex algorithm we show that a set of linear constraints is unsatisfiable if and only if there is a linear combination of the constraints which evaluates to a trivially unsatisfiable inequality.
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