Sum of squares certificates for containment of H-polytopes in V-polytopes

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Abstract: Given an mathcalH-polytope P and a mathcalV-polytope Q, the decision problem whether P is contained in Q is co-NP-complete. This hardness remains if P is restricted to be a standard cube and Q is restricted to be the affine image of a cross polytope. While this hardness classification by Freund and Orlin dates back to 1985, for general dimension there seems to be only limited progress on that problem so far. Based on a formulation of the problem in terms of a bilinear feasibility problem, we study sum of squares certificates to decide the containment problem. These certificates can be computed by a semidefinite hierarchy. As a main result, we show that under mild and explicitly known preconditions the semidefinite hierarchy converges in finitely many steps. In particular, if P is contained in a large mathcalV-polytope Q (in a well-defined sense), then containment is certified by the first step of the hierarchy.



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