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Strong Nonnegativity, Sums of Squares, and Convex Hulls of Real Varieties
Student-Run Discrete Mathematics| Speaker: | Mohamed Omar, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Fri, Dec 3 2010, 11:00AM |
Description
Inspired by scheme theory, we discuss a strong notion of
nonnegativity on real varieties that gives deeper insight into the
structure of a hierarchy of projected semidefinite relaxations to the
convex hull of a given real variety. This is joint work with Brian
Osserman.