## A polynomially solvable case of the pooling problem.(English)Zbl 1365.90212

Summary: Answering a question of Haugland, we show that the pooling problem with one pool and a bounded number of inputs can be solved in polynomial time by solving a polynomial number of linear programs of polynomial size. We also give an overview of known complexity results and remaining open problems to further characterize the border between (strongly) NP-hard and polynomially solvable cases of the pooling problem.

### MSC:

 90C26 Nonconvex programming, global optimization 90C60 Abstract computational complexity for mathematical programming problems
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