# A new semidefinite programming hierarchy for cycles in binary matroids and cuts in graphs

@article{Gouveia2012ANS,
title={A new semidefinite programming hierarchy for cycles in binary matroids and cuts in graphs},
author={Jo{\~a}o Gouveia and Monique Laurent and Pablo A. Parrilo and Rekha R. Thomas},
journal={Mathematical Programming},
year={2012},
volume={133},
pages={203-225}
}
• Published 26 July 2009
• Mathematics
• Mathematical Programming
The theta bodies of a polynomial ideal are a series of semidefinite programming relaxations of the convex hull of the real variety of the ideal. In this paper we construct the theta bodies of the vanishing ideal of cycles in a binary matroid. Applied to cuts in graphs, this yields a new hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations of the cut polytope of the graph. If the binary matroid avoids certain minors we can characterize when the first theta body in the hierarchy equals the cycle…
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