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Main Authors: Nickel, Stefan, Puerto, Justo, Ramoser, Simon, Torrejon, Alberto
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15151
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  • We investigate the transportation problem under a Monge cost structure and derive compact formulas for optimal dual solutions based on the northwest-corner rule. As an application illustrating how these formulas yield structural insight while enhancing computational performance, we consider a broad class of facility location problems. In particular, the expressions are used within a Benders decomposition framework to derive novel formulations for the Discrete Ordered Median Problem with non-increasing weights. Numerical experiments validate that the resulting formulations achieve state-of-the-art performance and exhibit strong robustness across a wide range of instances.