> 2) provide a paper or thesis which illustrates your point? The typical recommendations about this topic are Schrijver: Combinatorial Optimization - Polyhedr

> 2) provide a paper or thesis which illustrates your point? The typical recommendations about this topic are Schrijver: Combinatorial Optimization - Polyhedra and Efficiency; Volume B, Part V, chapter 58 (often called "the bible of combinatorial optimization") and Korte, Vygen: Combinatorial Optimization - Theory and Algorithms (5th edition, not that this should make a difference); chapter 21