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A convex partition of a point set P in the plane is a planar partition of the convex hull of P with empty convex polygons or internal faces whose extreme points belong to P. In a convex partition, the union of the internal faces give the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hadrien Cambazard , Nicolas Catusse

We study the convex hulls of reachable sets of nonlinear systems with bounded disturbances and uncertain initial conditions. Reachable sets play a critical role in control, but remain notoriously challenging to compute, and existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Thomas Lew , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone

In this paper, we present sufficient conditions ensuring that the sum of the image of quadratic functions and the nonnegative orthant is convex. The hidden convexity of the trust-region problem with linear inequality constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Nguyen Quang Huy , Nguyen Huy Hung , Tran Van Nghi , Hoang Ngoc Tuan , Nguyen Van Tuyen

Piecewise linear vector optimization problems in a locally convex Hausdorff topological vector spaces setting are considered in this paper. The efficient solution set of these problems are shown to be the unions of finitely many semi-closed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Nguyen Ngoc Luan

We describe strong convex valid inequalities for conic quadratic mixed 0-1 optimization. These inequalities can be utilized for solving numerous practical nonlinear discrete optimization problems from value-at-risk minimization to queueing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Alper Atamturk , Andres Gomez

Arithmetic automata recognize infinite words of digits denoting decompositions of real and integer vectors. These automata are known expressive and efficient enough to represent the whole set of solutions of complex linear constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-11 Jérôme Leroux

We study the convex hull of the graph of a quadratic function $f(\mathbf{x})=\sum_{ij\in E}x_ix_j$, where the sum is over the edge set of a graph $G$ with vertex set $\{1,\dots,n\}$. Using an approach proposed by Gupte et al. (Discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Mitchell Harris , Thomas Kalinowski

In this paper some concepts of convex analysis on hyperbolic space are studied. We first study properties of the intrinsic distance, for instance, we present the spectral decomposition of its Hessian. Next, we study the concept of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Orizon Pereira Ferreira , Sándor Zoltán Németh , Jinzhen Zhu

In this paper we prove different functional inequalities extending the classical Rogers-Shephard inequalities for convex bodies. The original inequalities provide an optimal relation between the volume of a convex body and the volume of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 David Alonso-Gutiérrez , Bernardo González Merino , C. Hugo Jiménez , Rafael Villa

In this paper, we obtain some new upper bounds for differantiable mappings whose q-th powers are geometrically convex and monotonically decreasing by using the H\"older inequality, Power mean inequality and properties of modulus.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-31 M. Emin Özdemir

Imprecise measurements of a point set P = (p1, ..., pn) can be modelled by a family of regions F = (R1, ..., Rn), where each imprecise region Ri contains a unique point pi. A retrieval models an accurate measurement by replacing an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sarita de Berg , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Daniel Rutschmann , Sampson Wong

In this paper, we establish some integral ineuqalities for n- times differentiable convex functions.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Merve Avci Ardic

In this paper, we consider integral linear constraints and the dissipation inequality with linear supply rates for certain sets of trajectories confined pointwise in time to a convex cone which belongs to a finite-dimensional normed vector…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Emil Vladu , Alexandre Megretski , Anders Rantzer

We provide quantitative inner and outer bounds for the symmetric quasiconvex hull $Q^e(\mathcal{U})$ on linear strains generated by three-well sets $\mathcal{U}$ in $\mathbb{R}^{2\times 2}_{sym}$. In our study, we consider all possible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Antonio Capella , Lauro Morales

We provide three new proofs of the strong concavity of the dual function of some convex optimization problems. For problems with nonlinear constraints, we show that the the assumption of strong convexity of the objective cannot be weakened…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Vincent Guigues

The paper considers the minimization of a separable convex function subject to linear ascending constraints. The problem arises as the core optimization in several resource allocation scenarios, and is a special case of an optimization of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Akhil P T , Rajesh Sundaresan

Decomposition techniques for linear programming are difficult to extend to conic optimization problems with general non-polyhedral convex cones because the conic inequalities introduce an additional nonlinear coupling between the variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Yifan Sun , Martin S. Andersen , Lieven Vandenberghe

To reliably model real robot characteristics, interval linear systems of equations allow to describe families of problems that consider sets of values. This allows to easily account for typical complexities such as sets of joint states and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Joshua Pickard , Vincent Padois , Milan Hladík , David Daney

We propose a method to generate cutting-planes from multiple covers of knapsack constraints. The covers may come from different knapsack inequalities if the weights in the inequalities form a totally-ordered set. Thus, we introduce and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Alberto Del Pia , Jeff Linderoth , Haoran Zhu

This paper presents the input convex neural network architecture. These are scalar-valued (potentially deep) neural networks with constraints on the network parameters such that the output of the network is a convex function of (some of)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Brandon Amos , Lei Xu , J. Zico Kolter