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Hyperbolicity cones of elementary symmetric polynomials are spectrahedral

Optimization and Control 2013-09-23 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove that the hyperbolicity cones of elementary symmetric polynomials are spectrahedral, i.e., they are slices of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices. The proof uses the matrix--tree theorem, an idea already present in Choe et al.

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@article{arxiv.1204.2997,
  title  = {Hyperbolicity cones of elementary symmetric polynomials are spectrahedral},
  author = {Petter Brändén},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2997},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

9 pages. Some typos corrected. Details added. To appear in Optimization Letters