On reduced semidefinite programs for second order moment bounds with applications (Q507337)

The authors consider moment problems and study moment bounds on functions of random variables by developping a new semidefinite programming model. In particular, corresponding complexity results for the computation of the second order moment bound on the optimal value of a mixed-integer linear program are presented. Furthermore, a new polynomial time solvable semidefinite relaxation of the distributionally robust multi-item newsvendor problem is identified.