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Sufficient conditions for global optimality of semidefinite optimization

Jing Quan1*, Zhiyou Wu2, Guoquan Li2 and Ou Wu3

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Mathematics, Yibin University, Yibin, Sichuan 644007, China

2 College of Mathematics Science, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 400047, China

3 College of science, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211101, China

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Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2012, 2012:108 doi:10.1186/1029-242X-2012-108

Published: 18 May 2012

Abstract

In this article, by using the Lagrangian function, we investigate the sufficient global optimality conditions for a class of semi-definite optimization problems, where the objective function are general nonlinear, the variables are mixed integers subject to linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) constraints as well as bounded constraints. In addition, the sufficient global optimality conditions for general nonlinear programming problems are derived, where the variables satisfy LMIs constraints and box constraints or bivalent constraints. Furthermore, we give the sufficient global optimality conditions for standard semi-definite programming problem, where the objective function is linear, the variables satisfy linear inequalities constraints and box constraints.

Mathematics Subject Classification 2010: 90C30; 90C26; 90C11.