Linear Spaces of Symmetric Matrices with Non-Maximal Maximum Likelihood Degree

DOI10.4418/2021.76.2.11MaRDI QIDQ6354947arXivFDO

Authors Yuhan Jiang, Kathlén Kohn, Rosa Winter

Publication date 30 November 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4418/2021.76.2.11

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinantal varieties (14M12) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Algebraic statistics (62R01) Semidefinite programming (90C22)

arXiv classification

math.AGmath.STstat.TH

Abstract: We study the maximum likelihood degree of linear concentration models in algebraic statistics. We relate the geometry of the reciprocal variety to that of semidefinite programming. We show that the Zariski closure in the Grassmanian of the set of linear spaces that do not attain their maximal possible maximum likelihood degree coincides with the Zariski closure of the set of linear spaces defining a projection with non-closed image of the positive semidefinite cone. In particular, this shows that this closure is a union of coisotropic hypersurfaces.

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