Approximations of convex bodies by polytopes and by projections of spectrahedra

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arXiv1204.0471MaRDI QIDQ6232047FDOQ6232047

Alexander Barvinok

Publication date: 2 April 2012

Abstract: We prove that for any compact set B in R^d and for any epsilon >0 there is a finite subset X of B of |X|=d^{O(1/epsilon^2)} points such that the maximum absolute value of any linear function ell: R^d --> R on X approximates the maximum absolute value of ell on B within a factor of epsilon sqrt{d}. We also discuss approximations of convex bodies by projections of spectrahedra, that is, by projections of sections of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices by affine subspaces.












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