FPTAS and pseudo-polynomial separability of integral hull of generalized knapsack problem

The generalized knapsack problem, or gknap is the combinatorial optimization problem of optimizing a nonnegative linear functional over the integral hull of the intersection of a polynomially separable 0 - 1 polytope and a knapsack constraint. Among many potential applications, the knapsack, the restricted shortest path, and the restricted spanning tree problem are such examples. We prove via the ellipsoid method the equivalence between the fully polynomial approximability and a certain pseudo-polynomial separability of the gknap polytope.