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In this paper, we propose some new semidefinite relaxations for a class of nonconvex complex quadratic programming problems, which widely appear in the areas of signal processing and power system. By deriving new valid constraints to the…

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Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems (RCPSPs) without preemption are well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. A feasible RCPSP solution consists of a time-ordered schedule of jobs with corresponding execution…

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Polynomial optimization problems over binary variables can be expressed as integer programs using a linearization with extra monomials in addition to those arising in the given polynomial. We characterize when such a linearization yields an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Christopher Hojny , Marc E. Pfetsch , Matthias Walter

We develop a spatial branch-and-cut approach for nonconvex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs with bounded complex variables (CQCQP). Linear valid inequalities are added at each node of the search tree to strengthen semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Chen Chen , Alper Atamturk , Shmuel S. Oren

In this note, we test the performance of six algorithms from the family of graph-based splitting methods [SIAM J. Optim., 34 (2024), pp. 1569-1594] specialized to normal cones of linear subspaces. To do this, we first implement some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , Rubén Campoy , Irene López-Larios , César López-Pastor

Many nonlinear optimal control and optimization problems involve constraints that combine continuous dynamics with discrete logic conditions. Standard approaches typically rely on mixed-integer programming, which introduces scalability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

We present a pure linear cutting-plane relaxation approach for rapidly proving tight and accurate lower bounds for the Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow Problem (ACOPF) and its multi-period extension with ramping constraints. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Daniel Bienstock , Matias Villagra

We study linear programming relaxations of nonconvex quadratic programs given by the reformulation-linearization technique (RLT), referred to as RLT relaxations. We investigate the relations between the polyhedral properties of the feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Yuzhou Qiu , E. Alper Yıldırım

We consider linear and semidefinite programming relaxations of nonconvex quadratic programs given by the reformulation-linearization technique (RLT relaxation), and the Shor relaxation combined with the RLT relaxation (SDP-RLT relaxation).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 E. Alper Yildirim

We introduce a new technique for solving uni-parametric versions of linear programs, convex quadratic programs, and linear complementarity problems in which a single parameter is permitted to be present in any of the input data. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Nathan Adelgren

We explore some connections between association schemes and the analyses of the semidefinite programming (SDP) based convex relaxations of combinatorial optimization problems in the Lov\'{a}sz--Schrijver lift-and-project hierarchy. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yu Hin Au , Nathan Lindzey , Levent Tunçel

The complementarity knapsack problem (CKP) is a knapsack problem with real-valued variables and complementarity conditions between pairs of its variables. We extend the polyhedral studies of De Farias et al. for CKP, by proposing three new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Alberto Del Pia , Jeff Linderoth , Haoran Zhu

Combinatorial problems are formulated to find optimal designs within a fixed set of constraints. They are commonly found across diverse engineering and scientific domains. Understanding how to best use quantum computers for combinatorial…

A convex relaxation of a quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP) is called exact if it has a rank-$1$ optimal solution that corresponds to an optimal solution of the QCQP. Given a QCQP whose convex relaxation is exact, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Masakazu Kojima , Sunyoung Kim , Naohiko Arima

We consider the exact solution of problem $(QP)$ that consists in minimizing a quadratic function subject to quadratic constraints. Starting from the classical convex relaxation that uses the McCormick's envelopes, we introduce 12…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Amélie Lambert

Linear programming (LP) relaxations are widely employed in exact solution methods for multilinear programs (MLP). One example is the family of Recursive McCormick Linearization (RML) strategies, where bilinear products are substituted for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Arvind U Raghunathan , Carlos Cardonha , David Bergman , Carlos J Nohra

We generalize the reduction mechanism for linear programming problems and semidefinite programming problems from [arXiv:1410.8816] in two ways 1) relaxing the requirement of affineness and 2) extending to fractional optimization problems.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta , Aurko Roy

The problem of minimizing a (nonconvex) quadratic form over the unit simplex, referred to as a standard quadratic program, admits an exact convex conic formulation over the computationally intractable cone of completely positive matrices.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Y. Gorkem Gokmen , E. Alper Yildirim

Cutting plane methods are a fundamental approach for solving integer linear programs (ILPs). In each iteration of such methods, additional linear constraints (cuts) are introduced to the constraint set with the aim of excluding the previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Pol Puigdemont , Stratis Skoulakis , Grigorios Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

Many problems in robotics require reasoning over a mix of continuous dynamics and discrete events, such as making and breaking contact in manipulation and locomotion. These problems are locally well modeled by linear complementarity…

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