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  • Analysis of Lower Bounds for the Multislope Ski-Rental Problem

    Hiroshi FUJIWARA  Yasuhiro KONNO  Toshihiro FUJITO  

     
    PAPER

      Vol:
    E97-A No:6
      Page(s):
    1200-1205

    The multislope ski-rental problem is an extension of the classical ski-rental problem, where the player has several options of paying both of a per-time fee and an initial fee, in addition to pure renting and buying options. Damaschke gave a lower bound of 3.62 on the competitive ratio for the case where arbitrary number of options can be offered. In this paper we propose a scheme that for the number of options given as an input, provides a lower bound on the competitive ratio, by extending the method of Damaschke. This is the first to establish a lower bound for each of the 5-or-more-option cases, for example, a lower bound of 2.95 for the 5-option case, 3.08 for the 6-option case, and 3.18 for the 7-option case. Moreover, it turns out that our lower bounds for the 3- and 4-option cases respectively coincide with the known upper bounds. We therefore conjecture that our scheme in general derives a matching lower and upper bound.

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