Strong duality in lasserre's hierarchy for polynomial optimization

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DOI10.1007/S11590-015-0868-5zbMATH Open1339.90267arXiv1405.7334OpenAlexW2051634716MaRDI QIDQ5963686FDOQ5963686

Cédric Josz, Didier Henrion

Publication date: 23 February 2016

Published in: Optimization Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A polynomial optimization problem (POP) consists of minimizing a multivariate real polynomial on a semi-algebraic set K described by polynomial inequalities and equations. In its full generality it is a non-convex, multi-extremal, difficult global optimization problem. More than an decade ago, J.~B.~Lasserre proposed to solve POPs by a hierarchy of convex semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations of increasing size. Each problem in the hierarchy has a primal SDP formulation (a relaxation of a moment problem) and a dual SDP formulation (a sum-of-squares representation of a polynomial Lagrangian of the POP). In this note, when the POP feasibility set K is compact, we show that there is no duality gap between each primal and dual SDP problem in Lasserre's hierarchy, provided a redundant ball constraint is added to the description of set K. Our proof uses elementary results on SDP duality, and it does not assume that K has an interior point.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7334





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