On representing the positive semidefinite cone using the second-order cone
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Fawzi, Hamza
署名单位：
University of Cambridge
刊物名称：
MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
ISSN/ISSBN：
0025-5610
DOI：
10.1007/s10107-018-1233-0
发表日期：
2019
页码：
109-118
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摘要：
The second-order cone plays an important role in convex optimization and has strong expressive abilities despite its apparent simplicity. Second-order cone formulations can also be solved more efficiently than semidefinite programming problems in general. We consider the following question, posed by Lewis and Glineur, Parrilo, Saunderson: is it possible to express the general positive semidefinite cone using second-order cones? We provide a negative answer to this question and show that the 3x3 positive semidefinite cone does not admit any second-order cone representation. In fact we show that the slice consisting of 3x3 positive semidefinite Hankel matrices does not admit a second-order cone representation. Our proof relies on exhibiting a sequence of submatrices of the slack matrix of the 3x3 positive semidefinite cone whose second-order cone rank grows to infinity.
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