TY - JOUR
T1 - Strong duality for the CDT subproblem
T2 - A necessary and sufficient condition
AU - Ai, Wenbao
AU - Zhang, Shuzhong
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this paper, we consider the problem of minimi zing a nonconvex quadratic function, subject to two quadratic inequality constraints. As an application, such a quadratic program plays an important role in the trust region method for nonlinear optimization; such a problem is known as the Celis, Dennis, and Tapia (CDT) subproblem in the literature. The Lagrangian dual of the CDT subproblem is a semidefinite program (SDP), hence convex and solvable. However, a positive duality gap may exist between the CDT subproblem and its Lagrangian dual because the CDT subproblem itself is nonconvex. In this paper, we present a necessary and sufficient condition to characterize when the CDT subproblem and its Lagrangian dual admits no duality gap (i.e., the strong duality holds). This necessary and sufficient condition is easy verifiable and involves only one (any) optimal solution of the SDP relaxation for the CDT subproblem. Moreover, the condition reveals that it is actually rare to render a positive duality gap for the CDT subproblems in general. Moreover, if the strong duality holds, then an optimal solution for the CDT problem can be retrieved from an optimal solution of the SDP relaxation, by means of a matrix rank-one decomposition procedure. The same analysis is extended to the framework where the necessary and sufficient condition is presented in terms of the Lagrangian multipliers at a KKT point. Furthermore, we show that the condition is numerically easy to work with approximatively.
AB - In this paper, we consider the problem of minimi zing a nonconvex quadratic function, subject to two quadratic inequality constraints. As an application, such a quadratic program plays an important role in the trust region method for nonlinear optimization; such a problem is known as the Celis, Dennis, and Tapia (CDT) subproblem in the literature. The Lagrangian dual of the CDT subproblem is a semidefinite program (SDP), hence convex and solvable. However, a positive duality gap may exist between the CDT subproblem and its Lagrangian dual because the CDT subproblem itself is nonconvex. In this paper, we present a necessary and sufficient condition to characterize when the CDT subproblem and its Lagrangian dual admits no duality gap (i.e., the strong duality holds). This necessary and sufficient condition is easy verifiable and involves only one (any) optimal solution of the SDP relaxation for the CDT subproblem. Moreover, the condition reveals that it is actually rare to render a positive duality gap for the CDT subproblems in general. Moreover, if the strong duality holds, then an optimal solution for the CDT problem can be retrieved from an optimal solution of the SDP relaxation, by means of a matrix rank-one decomposition procedure. The same analysis is extended to the framework where the necessary and sufficient condition is presented in terms of the Lagrangian multipliers at a KKT point. Furthermore, we show that the condition is numerically easy to work with approximatively.
KW - Celis, Dennis, and Tapia subproblem
KW - Quadratically constrained quadratic programming
KW - Semidefinite program relaxation
KW - Strong Lagrangian duality
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U2 - 10.1137/07070601X
DO - 10.1137/07070601X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70450200104
SN - 1052-6234
VL - 19
SP - 1735
EP - 1756
JO - SIAM Journal on Optimization
JF - SIAM Journal on Optimization
IS - 4
ER -