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Some monotone increasing sequences of the lower bounds for the minimum eigenvalue of $M$-matrices are given. It is proved that these sequences are convergent and improve some existing results. Numerical examples show that these sequences…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Jianxing Zhao , Caili Sang

This work derives upper bounds on the convergence rate of the moment-sum-of-squares hierarchy with correlative sparsity for global minimization of polynomials on compact basic semialgebraic sets. The main conclusion is that both sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Milan Korda , Victor Magron , Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche

Consider the problem of minimizing a polynomial $f$ over a compact semialgebraic set ${\mathbf{X} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n}$. Lasserre introduces hierarchies of semidefinite programs to approximate this hard optimization problem, based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Lucas Slot

We study the convergence rate of a hierarchy of upper bounds for polynomial minimization problems, proposed by Lasserre [SIAM J. Optim. 21(3) (2011), pp. 864-885], for the special case when the feasible set is the unit (hyper)sphere. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-19 Etienne de Klerk , Monique Laurent

This paper proposes hybrid high-order eigensolvers for the computation of guaranteed lower eigenvalue bounds. These bounds display higher order convergence rates and are accessible to adaptive mesh-refining algorithms. The involved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Ngoc Tien Tran

Lasserre's hierarchy is a sequence of semidefinite relaxations for solving polynomial optimization problems globally. This paper studies the relationship between optimality conditions in nonlinear programming theory and finite convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Jiawang Nie

We focus on computing certified upper bounds for the positive maximal singular value (PMSV) of a given matrix. The PMSV problem boils down to maximizing a quadratic polynomial on the intersection of the unit sphere and the nonnegative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Victor Magron , Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai , Yoshio Ebihara , Hayato Waki

We introduce novel polyhedral approximation hierarchies for the cone of nonnegative forms on the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and for its (dual) cone of moments. We prove computable quantitative bounds on the speed of convergence of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Sergio Cristancho , Mauricio Velasco

The Lasserre hierarchy of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations is an effective scheme for finding computationally feasible SDP approximations of polynomial optimization over compact semi-algebraic sets. In this paper, we show that,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-28 V. Jeyakumar , T. S. Pham , G. Li

The Lasserre or moment-sum-of-square hierarchy of linear matrix inequality relaxations is used to compute inner approximations of the maximal positively invariant set for continuous-time dynamical systems with polynomial vector fields.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Antoine Oustry , Matteo Tacchi , Didier Henrion

This article is devoted to computing the lower and upper bounds of the Laplace eigenvalue problem. By using the special nonconforming finite elements, i.e., enriched Crouzeix-Raviart element and extension $Q_1^{\rm rot}$, we get the lower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Fusheng Luo , Qun Lin , Hehu Xie

This paper investigates the minimization of the expectation of piecewise polynomial loss functions over Wasserstein balls. This optimization problem often appears as a key sub-problem of distributionally robust optimization problems. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 N. D. Dizon , Q. Y. Huang , T. D. Chuong , G. Li , V. Jeyakumar

Witsenhausen's problem asks for the maximum fraction $\alpha_n$ of the $n$-dimensional unit sphere that can be covered by a measurable set containing no pairs of orthogonal points. The best upper bounds for $\alpha_n$ are given by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Bram Bekker , Olga Kuryatnikova , Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Juan C. Vera

We study the convergence rate of moment-sum-of-squares hierarchies of semidefinite programs for optimal control problems with polynomial data. It is known that these hierarchies generate polynomial under-approximations to the value function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Milan Korda , Didier Henrion , Colin N. Jones

We introduce an S.o.S hierarchy of lower bounds for a polynomial optimization problem whose constraint is expressed as a matrix polynomial semidefinite inequality. Our approach involves utilizing a penalty function framework to directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Hoang Anh Tran , Kim-Chuan Toh

This paper introduces state polynomials, i.e., polynomials in noncommuting variables and formal states of their products. A state analog of Artin's solution to Hilbert's 17th problem is proved showing that state polynomials, positive over…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Igor Klep , Victor Magron , Jurij Volčič , Jie Wang

We consider the sum-of-squares hierarchy of approximations for the problem of minimizing a polynomial $f$ over the boolean hypercube $\mathbb{B}^{n}=\{0,1\}^n$. This hierarchy provides for each integer $r \in \mathbb{N}$ a lower bound…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Lucas Slot , Monique Laurent

Solutions to many important partial differential equations satisfy bounds constraints, but approximations computed by finite element or finite difference methods typically fail to respect the same conditions. Chang and Nakshatrala enforce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Robert C. Kirby , Daniel Shapero

When an eigenvector of a semi-bounded operator is positive, we show that a remarkably simple argument allows to obtain upper and lower bounds for its associated eigenvalue. This theorem is a substantial generalization of Barta-like…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Amaury Mouchet

This paper studies the problem of selecting a submatrix of a positive definite matrix in order to achieve a desired bound on the smallest eigenvalue of the submatrix. Maximizing this smallest eigenvalue has applications to selecting input…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Andrew Clark , Qiqiang Hou , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran