New approximations for the cone of copositive matrices and its dual

We provide convergent hierarchies for the cone C of copositive matrices and its dual, the cone of completely positive matrices. In both cases the corresponding hierarchy consists of nested spectrahedra and provide outer (resp. inner) approximations for C (resp. for its dual), thus complementing previous inner (resp. outer) approximations for C (for the dual). In particular, both inner and outer approximations have a very simple interpretation. Finally, extension to K-copositivity and K-complete positivity for a closed convex cone K, is straightforward.Comment: 8

Extremal copositive matrices with minimal zero supports of cardinality two

Let $A \in {\cal C}^n$ be an extremal copositive matrix with unit diagonal. Then the minimal zeros of $A$ all have supports of cardinality two if and only if the elements of $A$ are all from the set $\{-1,0,1\}$. Thus the extremal copositive matrices with minimal zero supports of cardinality two are exactly those matrices which can be obtained by diagonal scaling from the extremal $\{-1,0,1\}$ unit diagonal matrices characterized by Hoffman and Pereira in 1973.Comment: 4 page