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Generic Spectrahedral Shadows

Optimization and Control 2015-04-28 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Spectrahedral shadows are projections of linear sections of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices. We characterize the polynomials that vanish on the boundaries of these convex sets when both the section and the projection are generic.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1407.5219,
  title  = {Generic Spectrahedral Shadows},
  author = {Rainer Sinn and Bernd Sturmfels},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5219},
  year   = {2015}
}

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