On the Chvátal-rank of facets for the set covering polyhedron of circular matrices

Abstract

We study minor related row family inequalities for the set covering polyhedron of circular matrices. We address the issue of generating these inequalities via the Chvátal-Gomory procedure and establish a general upper bound for their Chvátal-rank. Moreover, we provide a construction to obtain facets with arbitrarily large coefficients and examples of facets having Chvátal-rank strictly larger than one.