v2009.01.01 - Convex Optimization

that establish its membership to the EDM cone. The faces of the EDM cone
are described, but still open is the question whether all its faces are exposed
as they are for the positive semidefinite cone. The Schoenberg criterion (817),
relating the EDM cone and a positive semidefinite cone, is revealed to
be a discretized membership relation (dual generalized inequalities, a new
Farkas’-like lemma) between the EDM cone and its ordinary dual, EDM N∗ .
A matrix criterion for membership to the dual EDM cone is derived that is
simpler than the Schoenberg criterion:
D ∗ ∈ EDM N∗ ⇔ δ(D ∗ 1) − D ∗ ≽ 0 (1179)
We derive a concise equality of the EDM cone to two subspaces and a positive
semidefinite cone;
EDM N = S N h ∩ ( )
S N⊥
c − S N + (1173)
In chapter 7, Proximity problems, we explore methods of solution
to a few fundamental and prevalent Euclidean distance matrix proximity
problems; the problem of finding that distance matrix closest, in some sense,
to a given matrix H :
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minimize ‖−V (D − H)V ‖ 2 F
D
subject to rankV DV ≤ ρ
D ∈ EDM N
minimize ‖D − H‖ 2 F
D
subject to rankV DV ≤ ρ
D ∈ EDM N
minimize ‖ ◦√ D − H‖
◦√ 2 F
D
subject to rankV DV ≤ ρ
◦√ √
D ∈ EDM
N
minimize ‖−V ( ◦√ D − H)V ‖
◦√ 2 F
D
subject to rankV DV ≤ ρ
◦√ √
D ∈ EDM
N
(1215)
We apply the new convex iteration method for constraining rank. Known
heuristics for rank minimization are also explained. We offer a new
geometrical proof, of a famous discovery by Eckart & Young in 1936 [107],
with particular regard to Euclidean projection of a point on that generally
nonconvex subset of the positive semidefinite cone boundary comprising
all positive semidefinite matrices having rank not exceeding a prescribed
bound ρ . We explain how this problem is transformed to a convex
optimization for any rank ρ .