v2009.01.01 - Convex Optimization

718 APPENDIX F. NOTATION AND A FEW DEFINITIONS
int
lim
sgn
round
mod
tr
rank
interior
limit
signum function or sign
round to nearest integer
modulus function
matrix trace
as in rankA, rank of matrix A ; dim R(A)
dim dimension, dim R n = n , dim(x∈ R n ) = n , dim R(x∈ R n ) = 1,
dim R(A∈ R m×n )= rank(A)
aff
dim aff
affine hull
affine dimension
card cardinality, number of nonzero entries cardx ∆ = ‖x‖ 0
or N is cardinality of list X ∈ R n×N (p.287)
conv
cenv
cone
content
cof
convex hull
convex envelope
conic hull
of high-dimensional bounded polyhedron, volume in 3 dimensions, area
in 2, and so on
matrix of cofactors corresponding to matrix argument
dist distance between point or set arguments; e.g., dist(x, B)
vec vectorization of m ×n matrix, Euclidean dimension mn (30)
svec vectorization of symmetric n ×n matrix, Euclidean dimension
n(n + 1)/2 (49)
dvec
vectorization of symmetric hollow n ×n matrix, Euclidean dimension
n(n − 1)/2 (66)