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Sum of squares methods for minimizing polynomial forms over spheres and hypersurfaces. (English) Zbl 1277.65046
The paper studies four similar types of problems: (1) minimizing a polynomial form $$f$$ over a unit sphere, (2) minimizing a multi-form $$f$$ over a multi-unit sphere, (3) minimizing a sparse or odd form $$f$$ over a unit sphere, (4) minimizing a homogeneous polynomial $$f$$ over a hypersurface. As the problems are NP-hard, approximation algorithms for solving these types of problems are used. The paper is devoted to the standard sum of squares (SOS) relaxation and its generalizations (it is equivalent to a semidefinite programming problem). For each individual case of minimization the authors discuss the performance of the SOS relaxation by answering the question how well the optimal value $$f_{\mathrm{sos}}$$ of the SOS relaxation approximates the minimum value $$f_{\min}$$ of $$f$$. It is done by analyzing the upper bound for the ratio $$(f_{\max}-f_{\mathrm{sos}})/(f_{\max}-f_{\min})$$ where $$f_{\max}$$ is the maximum value of $$f$$.

##### MSC:
 65K05 Numerical mathematical programming methods 90C22 Semidefinite programming 90C59 Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming
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