The Euclidian Distance Matrix Completion Problem

  • Authors:
  • Mihaly Bakonyi;Charles R. Johnson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Motivated by the molecular conformation problem, completions of partial Euclidian distance matrices are studied. It is proved that any partial distance matrix with a chordal graph can be completed to a distance matrix. Given any nonchordal graph $G$, it is shown that there is a partial distance matrix $A$ with graph $G$ such that $A$ does not admit any distance matrix completions. Finally, the connection between distance matrix completions and positive semidefinite completions is outlined.