Location
Cupples I Room 113
Start Date
7-19-2016 2:30 PM
End Date
19-7-2016 2:50 PM
Description
The talk concerns inequalities for functions having matrix variables. The functions are typically (noncommutative) polynomials or rational functions. A focus of much attention are the inequalities corresponding to convexity. Since systems problems seldom produce an LMI directly it is important to have a theory for changing variables to produce an LMI or a theory of convex hulls. While this is hopeless for classical polynomials in commuting variables, there is some chance of an informative theory for matrix variables. For noncommuting variables this produces a wide range of subsidiary problems which need to be solved. The talk will describe some of these and what is known about them. Most of the work is done jointly with Meric Augat, Igor Klep and Scott A. McCullough who also will be speaking at IWOTA so our talks will be somewhat coordinated.
Changing noncommuting variables with free analytic functions
Cupples I Room 113
The talk concerns inequalities for functions having matrix variables. The functions are typically (noncommutative) polynomials or rational functions. A focus of much attention are the inequalities corresponding to convexity. Since systems problems seldom produce an LMI directly it is important to have a theory for changing variables to produce an LMI or a theory of convex hulls. While this is hopeless for classical polynomials in commuting variables, there is some chance of an informative theory for matrix variables. For noncommuting variables this produces a wide range of subsidiary problems which need to be solved. The talk will describe some of these and what is known about them. Most of the work is done jointly with Meric Augat, Igor Klep and Scott A. McCullough who also will be speaking at IWOTA so our talks will be somewhat coordinated.