A case of \(\mu\)-synthesis as a quadratic semidefinite program (Q2848595)

The authors analyse a special case of the robust stabilization problem under structured uncertainty. They obtain a new criterion for the solvability of the spectral Nevanlinna-Pick problem, which is a special case of the \(\mu\)-synthesis problem of \(H^{\infty}\) control in which \(\mu\) is the spectral radius. Given \(n\) distinct points \(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_n\) in the unit disc and \(2\times 2\) nonscalar complex matrices \(W_1,\dots,W_n\), the problem is to determine whether there is an analytic \(2\times 2\) matrix function \(F\) on the disc such that \(F(\lambda_j)=W_j\) for each \(j\) and the supremum of the spectral radius of \(F(\lambda)\) is less than 1 for \(\lambda\) in the disc. The condition is that the minimum of a quadratic function of pairs of positive \(3n\)-square matrices subject to certain linear matrix inequalities in the data is attained and is zero.