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In this article the notion of the nondecreasing (ND) rank of a matrix or tensor is introduced. A tensor has an ND rank of r if it can be represented as a sum of r outer products of vectors, with each vector satisfying a monotonicity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Andrew McCormack

Semidefinite programming (SDP) provides a fundamental framework for studying properties of sum-of-squares (sos) representations of nonnegative polynomials. In this paper we study the quartic forms GF = (|x|^4 + F(x))/2 associated with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Jianquan Ge , Kai Jia , Yuyang Zhao

We consider optimization problems containing nonconvex quadratic functions for which semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations often yield strong bounds. We investigate linear inequalities that outer approximate the positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Oktay Günlük , Paul Jünger , Jeff Linderoth , Andrea Lodi , James Luedtke

A novel lower bound is introduced for the full rank probability of random finite field matrices, where a number of elements with known location are identically zero, and remaining elements are chosen independently of each other, uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Daniel Salmond , Alex Grant , Ian Grivell , Terence Chan

In this framework, the extremal case corresponds to the tightest nontrivial relaxation in this hierarchy, in which every proper principal submatrix is constrained to be positive semidefinite, while the global positive semidefiniteness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Shaun Fallat , Samir Mondal , Hristo Sendov

This paper investigates the extension complexity of polytopes by exploiting the correspondence between non-negative factorizations of slack matrices and randomized communication protocols. We introduce a geometric characterization of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 M. Szusterman

A central question in optimization is to maximize (or minimize) a linear function over a given polytope P. To solve such a problem in practice one needs a concise description of the polytope P. In this paper we are interested in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Hamza Fawzi , James Saunderson , Pablo A. Parrilo

We consider the decision problem asking whether a partial rational symmetric matrix with an all-ones diagonal can be completed to a full positive semidefinite matrix of rank at most $k$. We show that this problem is $\NP$-hard for any fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Marianna Eisenberg-Nagy , Monique Laurent , Antonios Varvitsiotis

A polytope is inscribable if there is a realization where all vertices lie on the sphere. In this paper, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a polytope to be inscribable. Based on this condition, we characterize the problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Yiwen Chen , João Gouveia , Warren Hare , Amy Wiebe

The problem of expressing a specific polynomial as the determinant of a square matrix of affine-linear forms arises from algebraic geometry, optimisation, complexity theory, and scientific computing. Motivated by recent developments in this…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Ada Boralevi , Jasper van Doornmalen , Jan Draisma , Michiel E. Hochstenbach , Bor Plestenjak

Montanari and Richard (2015) asked whether a natural semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation can effectively optimize $\mathbf{x}^{\top}\mathbf{W} \mathbf{x}$ over $\|\mathbf{x}\| = 1$ with $x_i \geq 0$ for all coordinates $i$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Afonso S. Bandeira , Dmitriy Kunisky , Alexander S. Wein

Estimating the number of vertices of a two dimensional projection, called a shadow, of a polytope is a fundamental tool for understanding the performance of the shadow simplex method for linear programming among other applications. We prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Alexander E. Black , Francisco Criado

We extend the existing skew polynomial representations of matrix algebras which are direct sum of matrix spaces over division rings. In this representation, the sum-rank distance between two tuples of matrices is captured by a weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Alessandro Neri , Paolo Santonastaso

In this article we study forbidden loci and typical ranks of forms with respect to the embeddings of $\mathbb P^1\times \mathbb P^1$ given by the line bundles $(2,2d)$. We introduce the Ranestad-Schreyer locus corresponding to supports of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Emanuele Ventura

We propose a method for low-rank semidefinite programming in application to the semidefinite relaxation of unconstrained binary quadratic problems. The method improves an existing solution of the semidefinite programming relaxation to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Roman Pogodin , Mikhail Krechetov , Yury Maximov

This paper studies a class of so-called linear semi-infinite polynomial programming (LSIPP) problems. It is a subclass of linear semi-infinite programming problems whose constraint functions are polynomials in parameters and index sets are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Feng Guo , Xiaoxia Sun

We investigate questions related to the set $\mathcal{SEP}_d$ consisting of the linear maps $\rho$ acting on $\mathbb{C}^d\otimes \mathbb{C}^d$ that can be written as a convex combination of rank one matrices of the form $xx^*\otimes yy^*$.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Sander Gribling , Monique Laurent , Andries Steenkamp

The authors in a previous paper devised certain subcones of the semidefinite plus nonnegative cone and showed that satisfaction of the requirements for membership of those subcones can be detected by solving linear optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Akihiro Tanaka , Akiko Yoshise

We consider a notion of probabilistic rank and probabilistic sign-rank of a matrix, which measures the extent to which a matrix can be probabilistically represented by low-rank matrices. We demonstrate several connections with matrix…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Josh Alman , Ryan Williams

A weakly infeasible semidefinite program (SDP) has no feasible solution, but it has approximate solutions whose constraint violation is arbitrarily small. These SDPs are ill-posed and numerically often unsolvable. They are also closely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Gábor Pataki , Aleksandr Touzov