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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Food For Thought Seminar

Jeremy Semko

UCSD

Matrix Convexity and the Bent TV Screen

Abstract:

The notion of convexity of vector spaces can be generalized to dimension-free sets of matrices. A natural question that then arises is how to identify a set's matrix convex hull. We introduce some techniques for getting a grasp on the matrix convex hull of semi-algebraic sets and look at one of these in particular: The bent TV screen. This is the set $$ \{ (X, Y) : I - X^2 - Y^4 \succeq 0 \} $$ It is convex in the scalar case but is not matrix convex. In fact, there is no known "simple" formula for its matrix convex hull.

October 18, 2012

11:00 AM

AP&M 7321

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