The positive semidefinite Grothendieck problem with rank constraint

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Abstract: Given a positive integer n and a positive semidefinite matrix A = (A_{ij}) of size m x m, the positive semidefinite Grothendieck problem with rank-n-constraint (SDP_n) is maximize sum_{i=1}^m sum_{j=1}^m A_{ij} x_i cdot x_j, where x_1, ..., x_m in S^{n-1}. In this paper we design a polynomial time approximation algorithm for SDP_n achieving an approximation ratio of gamma(n) = frac{2}{n}(frac{Gamma((n+1)/2)}{Gamma(n/2)})^2 = 1 - Theta(1/n). We show that under the assumption of the unique games conjecture the achieved approximation ratio is optimal: There is no polynomial time algorithm which approximates SDP_n with a ratio greater than gamma(n). We improve the approximation ratio of the best known polynomial time algorithm for SDP_1 from 2/pi to 2/(pigamma(m)) = 2/pi + Theta(1/m), and we show a tighter approximation ratio for SDP_n when A is the Laplacian matrix of a graph with nonnegative edge weights.









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