Monday, 14 August 2006

linear programming - Sorting a binary matrix diagonal in polynomial time while preserving rows

Is there a polynomial time solution to sort an arbitrary binary square matrix in polynomial time by rows so that the diagonal contains a 1 if any row contains a 1 in that column?



For example given matrix:



0 1 1 1 0  r0
1 0 0 1 0 r1
1 1 1 0 1 r2
0 0 0 0 1 r3
0 0 0 1 1 r4


A solution would be:



1 0 0 1 0  r1
1 1 1 0 1 r2
0 1 1 1 0 r0
0 0 0 1 1 r4
0 0 0 0 1 r3


Given a matrix:



1 0 0   r0
0 0 1 r1
1 0 1 r2


There could be multiple solutions:



1 0 0   r0    1 0 1   r2
0 0 1 r1 1 0 0 r0
1 0 1 r2 0 0 1 r1

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