Exact certification in global polynomial optimization via sums-of-squares of rational functions with rational coefficients

  • Authors:
  • Erich L. Kaltofen;Bin Li;Zhengfeng Yang;Lihong Zhi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205, USA;Key Lab of Mathematics Mechanization, AMSS, Beijing 100080, China;Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;Key Lab of Mathematics Mechanization, AMSS, Beijing 100080, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present a hybrid symbolic-numeric algorithm for certifying a polynomial or rational function with rational coefficients to be non-negative for all real values of the variables by computing a representation for it as a fraction of two polynomial sum-of-squares (SOS) with rational coefficients. Our new approach turns the earlier methods by Peyrl and Parrilo at SNC'07 and ours at ISSAC'08 both based on polynomial SOS, which do not always exist, into a universal algorithm for all inputs via Artin's theorem. Furthermore, we scrutinize the all-important process of converting the numerical SOS numerators and denominators produced by block semidefinite programming into an exact rational identity. We improve on our own Newton iteration-based high precision refinement algorithm by compressing the initial Gram matrices and by deploying rational vector recovery aside from orthogonal projection. We successfully demonstrate our algorithm on (1) various exceptional SOS problems with necessary polynomial denominators from the literature and on (2) very large (thousands of variables) SOS lower bound certificates for Rump's model problem (up to n=18, factor degree=17).