Maximizing Products of Linear Forms, and The Permanent of Positive Semidefinite Matrices

02/11/2020
by   Chenyang Yuan, et al.
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We study the convex relaxation of a polynomial optimization problem, maximizing a product of linear forms over the complex sphere. We show that this convex program is also a relaxation of the permanent of Hermitian positive semidefinite (HPSD) matrices. By analyzing a constructive randomized rounding algorithm, we obtain an improved multiplicative approximation factor to the permanent of HPSD matrices. We also propose an analog of Van der Waerden's conjecture for HPSD matrices, where the polynomial optimization problem is interpreted as a relaxation of the permanent.

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