Semidefinite relaxations for semi-infinite polynomial programming

This paper studies how to solve semi-infinite polynomial programming (SIPP) problems by semidefinite relaxation method. We first introduce two SDP relaxation methods for solving polynomial optimization problems with finitely many constraints. Then we propose an exchange algorithm with SDP relaxations to solve SIPP problems with compact index set. At last, we extend the proposed method to SIPP problems with noncompact index set via homogenization. Numerical results show that the algorithm is efficient in practice.Comment: 23 pages, 4 figure

An SDP method for Fractional Semi-infinite Programming Problems with SOS-convex polynomials

In this paper, we study a class of fractional semi-infinite polynomial programming problems involving s.o.s-convex polynomial functions. For such a problem, by a conic reformulation proposed in our previous work and the quadratic modules associated with the index set, a hierarchy of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations can be constructed and convergent upper bounds of the optimum can be obtained. In this paper, by introducing Lasserre's measure-based representation of nonnegative polynomials on the index set to the conic reformulation, we present a new SDP relaxation method for the considered problem. This method enables us to compute convergent lower bounds of the optimum and extract approximate minimizers. Moreover, for a set defined by infinitely many s.o.s-convex polynomial inequalities, we obtain a procedure to construct a convergent sequence of outer approximations which have semidefinite representations. The convergence rate of the lower bounds and outer approximations are also discussed

Existence theorem and optimality conditions for a class of convex

The paper is devoted to study of a special class of semi-infinite problems arising in nonlinear parametric optimization. These semi-infinite problems are convex and possess noncompact index sets. In the paper, we present conditions, which guarantee the existence of optimal solutions, and prove new optimality criterion. An example illustrating the obtained results is presented