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Approximate Completely Positive Semidefinite Factorizations and their Ranks

Algebraic Geometry 2023-09-07 v3

Abstract

In this paper we show the existence of approximate completely positive semidefinite (cpsd) factorizations with a cpsd-rank bounded above (almost) independently from the cpsd-rank of the initial matrix. This is particularly relevant since the cpsd-rank of a matrix cannot, in general, be upper bounded by a function only depending on its size. For this purpose, we make use of the Approximate Caratheodory Theorem in order to construct an approximate matrix with a low-rank Gram representation. We then employ the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma to improve to a logarithmic dependence of the cpsd-rank on the size.

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@article{arxiv.2012.06471,
  title  = {Approximate Completely Positive Semidefinite Factorizations and their Ranks},
  author = {Paria Abbasi and Andreas Klingler and Tim Netzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.06471},
  year   = {2023}
}

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v2: clarified and corrected some citations, v3: new title, close to published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T20:54:26.139Z