Quadratic programming on the positive orthant with a quasiconvex objective function

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Main Author: Zuñiga, Ruby Yohana Cuero
Publication Date: 2019
Format: Master thesis
Language: eng
Source: Repositório Institucional da UFG
Download full: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9934
Summary: In this work, we will study a class of real symmetric matrices that we will call subdefinite, these matrices include the positive semidefinites. For our purpose we will focus on the merely positive subdefinite matrices, that is, those matrices that are positive subdefinite but are not positive semidefinite. We will discuss the quadratic functions on Rn + and show that these functions are quasiconvex not convex, when their matrix representation is given by a merely positive subdefinite matrix. In addition, we will present a result of great importance in quadratic programming given that it allows to reduce the quasiconvexity of these nonconvex quadratic functions to the pseudoconvexity in the semipositive orthant. Finally, we will study the conditional gradient method to solve the quadratic programming problem, where the objective function is of this type.