Abstract
We consider the problem of approximating the global minimum of a general quadratic program (QP) with n variables subject to m ellipsoidal constraints. For m = 1, we rigorously show that an ∈-minimizer, where error ∈ ∈ (0, 1), can be obtained in polynomial time, meaning that the number of arithmetic operations is a polynomial in n, m, and log(1/∈). For m ≥ 2, we present a polynomial-time (1 - 1/m2)-approximation algorithm as well as a semidefinite programming relaxation for this problem. In addition, we present approximation algorithms for solving QP under the box constraints and the assignment polytope constraints.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 29-50 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Journal of Combinatorial Optimization |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1998 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:⁄Supported by the Australian Research Council. †Supported in part by the Department of Management Sciences of the University of Iowa where he performed this research during a research leave, and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under grant OPG0090391. ‡Supported in part by NSF grants DDM-9207347 and DMI-9522507, and by the Iowa Business School Summer Grant.
Keywords
- Global minimizer
- Polynomial-time approximation algorithm
- Quadratic programming