| Article ID: | iaor19972123 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 29 |
| End Page Number: | 31 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1996 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Story Sverre |
It is well known that for any partitioninng of the variables of a linear program, optimal aggregation weights exist. The present paper shows that if two or more of the optimal basic variables of the original problem are aggregated into the same variable using optimal weights, the optimal solution of the aggregated problem is degenerate.