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arxiv: 1612.07048 · v3 · pith:4MORLL5Enew · submitted 2016-12-21 · 🧮 math.OC · math.AG

Spectrahedral shadows

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keywords answercompactconjectureconvexeuclideanfalsegiveshelton-nie
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We show that there are many (compact) convex semi-algebraic sets in euclidean space that do not have a semidefinite representation. This gives a negative answer to a question by Nemirovski, resp. it shows that the Helton-Nie conjecture is false.

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