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# An echelon form of weakly infeasible semidefinite programs and bad projections of the psd cone

@article{Pataki2021AnEF,
title={An echelon form of weakly infeasible semidefinite programs and bad projections of the psd cone},
author={G{\'a}bor Pataki and Aleksandr Touzov},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2110.11437}
}
• Published 21 October 2021
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• ArXiv
A weakly infeasible semidefinite program (SDP) has no feasible solution, but it has approximate solutions whose constraint violation is arbitrarily small. These SDPs are ill-posed and numerically often unsolvable. They are also closely related to “bad” linear projections that map the cone of positive semidefinite matrices to a nonclosed set. We describe a simple echelon form of weakly infeasible SDPs with the following properties: (i) it is obtained by elementary row operations and congruence…

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