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A Polynomial-Time Redundancy Allocation Model
Benedict Nmah

Abstract
Redundancy optimization models are often NP-hard; nonetheless, there exist models of redundancy allocation that can be solved in polynomial time. This paper presents one of such models where for a positive integer n greater than 1, a series of n independent subsystems are all built from identical components; the subsystems fail only if all components in the subsystems fail. Particularly, this paper deals with the special case in which the objective vector takes the form (c, 1, 1, · · · , 1) where c is an integer with c > 1.

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