报告题目:Certifying convergence of Lasserre's hierarchy via flat truncation
报告人:Jiawang Nie(Professor)
主持人:杨争锋(副教授)
报告时间:
报告地点:中山北路校区数学馆201
报告摘要:
Consider the optimization problem of minimizing a polynomial function subject to
polynomial constraints. A typical approach for solving it globally is applying
Lasserre's hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations, based on either Putinar's or
Schmüdgen's Positivstellensatz. A practical question in applications is: how to
certify its convergence and get minimizers? In this paper, we propose flat truncation
as a certificate for this purpose. Assume the set of global minimizers is nonempty and
finite.
Our main results are: (i) Putinar type Lasserre's hierarchy has finite convergence if
and only if flat truncation holds, under some generic assumptions; the same conclusion
holds for the Schmüdgen type one under weaker assumptions. (ii) Flat truncation is
asymptotically satisfied for Putinar type Lasserre's hierarchy if the Archimedean
condition holds; the same conclusion holds for the Schmüdgen type one if the feasible
set is compact. (iii) We show that flat truncation can be used as a certificate to
check exactness of standard SOS relaxations and Jacobian SDP relaxations.
报告人简介:
Professor Jiawang Nie obtained his BS (1997) degree in Xi'an JiaoTong University and MS
(2006) degree in
Postdoctoral
Fellow in Institute for Mathematics and its Applications(IMA),