
Geometry of Linear Matrix Inequalities
A Course in Convexity and Real Algebraic Geometry with a View Towards Optimization
Birkhäuser (Publisher)
Published on 8. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 161 pages
978-3-031-26454-2 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook provides a thorough introduction to spectrahedra, which are the solution sets to linear matrix inequalities, emerging in convex and polynomial optimization, analysis, combinatorics, and algebraic geometry. Including a wealth of examples and exercises, this textbook guides the reader in helping to determine the convex sets that can be represented and approximated as spectrahedra and their shadows (projections). Several general results obtained in the last 15 years by a variety of different methods are presented in the book, along with the necessary background from algebra and geometry.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is part of Birkhäuser 'Compact Textbooks in Mathematics' series, which aims for concise books that are tailored in size and scope to a single semester course at a late undergraduate or early graduate student level. This book fits that bill precisely. ... There are two appendices, one on real algebraic geometry and one on convexity, which provide background. With these, the book is in principle self-contained . ." (Tamon Stephen, Mathematical Reviews, March, 2025)
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Series
Edition
2023 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
5 s/w Abbildungen, 29 farbige Abbildungen
VIII, 161 p. 34 illus., 29 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
303 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-26454-2 (9783031264542)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-26455-9
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Tim Netzer | Daniel Plaumann
Geometry of Linear Matrix Inequalities
A Course in Convexity and Real Algebraic Geometry with a View Towards Optimization
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06/2023
Birkhäuser
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Persons
Tim Netzer
is a professor of applied algebra at the University of Innsbruck. He received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Konstanz. His research is in real algebra and geometry, with connections to optimization, functional analysis, and quantum information theory. He has worked at the Universities of Saskatchewan, Leipzig, and Dresden.
Daniel Plaumann is a professor of algebra and its applications at Dortmund University. He received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Konstanz. His research is in real and classical algebraic geometry. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Daniel Plaumann is a professor of algebra and its applications at Dortmund University. He received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Konstanz. His research is in real and classical algebraic geometry. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Content
- 1. Introduction and Preliminaries. - 2. Linear Matrix Inequalities and Spectrahedra. - 3. Spectrahedral Shadows.