Radii minimal projections of polytopes and constrained optimization of symmetric polynomials

Advances in Geometry

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-83

  Brandenberg, René ^a   Theobald, Thorsten ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enclosing cylinder; Outer radius; Polynomial optimization; Polytope; Projection; Regular simplex; Symmetric polynomials

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646706841     PISSN: 1615715X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ADVGEOM.2006.005     Document Type: Article

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