We present a strong duality theory for optimization problems over symmetric cones without assuming any constraint qualification. We show important complexity implications of the result to semidefinite and second order conic optimization. The result is an application of Borwein and Wolkowicz’s facial reduction procedure to express the minimal cone. We use Pataki’s simplified analysis and provide...

measure always exists on a commutative hypergroup K, and there always exists a 'Plancherel measure' on the dual space K of equivalence classes of irreducible representations of K, with respect to which Plancherel's formula holds for Fourier transforms. In contrast with the case of a locally compact abelian group, however, the Plancherel measure is not necessarily a Haar measure on K, and K need...