Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Math 278C: Optimization and Data Science
Prof. Achill Schürmann
University of Rostock, Germany
Computing Certificates for Complete Positivity
Abstract:
A key problem in computer proofs based on solutions from copositive optimization, is checking whether or not a given quadratic form is completely positive or not. In this talk we describe the first known algorithm for arbitrary rational input. It is based on a suitable adaption of Voronoi's Algorithm and the underlying theory from positive definite to copositive quadratic forms. We observe several similarities with the classical theory, but also some differences, in particular for three and more variables. A key element and currently the main bottleneck in our algorithm is an adapted shortest vector computation, asking for all nonnegative integer vectors attaining the copositive minimum of a given copositive quadratic form. (This is based on joint work with Valentin Dannenberg, Alexander Oertel, Mathieu Dutour Sikiric and Frank Vallentin).
Host: Jiawang Nie
March 17, 2026
4:00 PM
APM 2402 & Zoom (Meeting ID: 926 5846 1639 / Password: 278CWN26)
Research Areas
Optimization****************************

