In this paper, with the help of convex-like function, we discuss the duality theory for nonconvex semidefinite programming. Our contributions are: duality theory for the general nonconvex semidefinite programming when Slater’s condition holds; perfect duality for a special case of the nonconvex semidefinite programming for which Slater’s condition fails. We point out that the results of [2] can...

This paper deals with the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem subject to descriptor systems for which the semidefinite programming approach is used as a solution. We propose a new sufficient condition in terms of primal dual semidefinite programming for the existence of the optimal state-control pair of the problem considered. The results show that semidefinite programming is an elegant me...

Examples of weakly infeasible semidefinite programs are useful to test whether semidefinite solvers can detect infeasibility. However, finding non trivial such examples is notoriously difficult. This note shows how to use Lasserre’s semidefinite programming relaxations for polynomial optimization in order to generate examples of weakly infeasible semidefinite programs. Such examples could be us...