Characterization of the barrier parameter of homogeneous convex cones

Einstein-Hessian barriers on convex cones

On the interior of a regular convex cone K ⊂ R there exist two canonical Hessian metrics, the one generated by the logarithm of the characteristic function, and the Cheng-Yau metric. The former is associated with a self-concordant logarithmically homogeneous barrier on K with parameter of order O(n), the universal barrier. This barrier is invariant with respect to the unimodular automorphism su...

Bornological Completion of Locally Convex Cones

In this paper, firstly, we obtain some new results about bornological convergence in locally convex cones (which was studied in [1]) and then we introduce the concept of bornological completion for locally convex cones. Also, we prove that the completion of a bornological locally convex cone is bornological. We illustrate the main result by an example.

On the optimal parameter of a self-concordant barrier over a symmetric cone

The properties of the barrier F (x) = −log(det(x)), defined over the cone of squares of a Euclidean Jordan algebra, are analyzed using pure algebraic techniques. Furthermore, relating the Carathéodory number of a symmetric cone with the rank of an underlying Euclidean Jordan algebra, conclusions about the optimal parameter of F are suitably obtained. Namely, in a more direct and suitable way th...

Some Results on Boundedness in Locally Convex Cones

A lower bound on the barrier parameter of barriers for convex cones

Let K ⊂ R be a regular convex cone, let e1, . . . , en ∈ ∂K be linearly independent points on the boundary of a compact affine section of the cone, and let x∗ ∈ K be a point in the relative interior of this section. For k = 1, . . . , n, let lk be the line through the points ek and x ∗, let yk be the intersection point of lk with ∂K opposite to ek, and let zk be the intersection point of lk wit...