Pseudodistribution product inequality for semidefinite quadratic forms

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Let A1,…,AdA_1,\ldots,A_d be the positive semidefinite matrices in the paper's optimization problem, let Sk\mathcal{S}_k denote the family of kk-element subsets of {1,…,d}\{1,\ldots,d\}, and let μ(x)\mu(x) be the normalized weight

μ(x)=⟨v,x⟩2(k−1)Ex[⟨v,x⟩2(k−1)].\mu(x)=\frac{\langle v,x\rangle^{2(k-1)}}{\mathbb{E}_x[\langle v,x\rangle^{2(k-1)}]}.

Pseudodistribution product inequality.

(∏i=1dEx[μ(x)⟨x,Aix⟩])(d−1k−1)≥∏I∈SkEx[∏i∈I⟨x,Aix⟩].\left(\prod_{i=1}^d\mathbb{E}_x\left[\mu(x)\langle x,A_i x\rangle\right]\right)^{\binom{d-1}{k-1}} \geq \prod_{I\in\mathcal{S}_k}\mathbb{E}_x\left[\prod_{i\in I}\langle x,A_i x\rangle\right].

If true, this inequality would imply that \textscOptSOSk(A)\textsc{OptSOS}_k(\mathcal{A}) has approximation factor e−C(n,k)e^{-C(n,k)}. The supplied span does not establish resolution, and the notation for the distributions, expectation functional, and matrix assumptions is only partially present in the excerpt.

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Chenyang Yuan and Pablo A. Parrilo, “Semidefinite Relaxations of Products of Nonnegative Forms on the Sphere”, arXiv:2102.13220 (2021).

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