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Main Authors: Dressler, Mareike, Foucart, Simon, Joldes, Mioara, de Klerk, Etienne, Lasserre, Jean-Bernard, Xu, Yuan
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19219
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author Dressler, Mareike
Foucart, Simon
Joldes, Mioara
de Klerk, Etienne
Lasserre, Jean-Bernard
Xu, Yuan
author_facet Dressler, Mareike
Foucart, Simon
Joldes, Mioara
de Klerk, Etienne
Lasserre, Jean-Bernard
Xu, Yuan
contents We consider a new multivariate generalization of the classical monic (univariate) Chebyshev polynomial that minimizes the uniform norm on the interval $[-1,1]$. Let $Π^*_n$ be the subset of polynomials of degree at most $n$ in $d$ variables, whose homogeneous part of degree $n$ has coefficients summing up to $1$. The problem is determining a polynomial in $Π^*_n$ with the smallest uniform norm on a domain $Ω$, which we call a least Chebyshev polynomial (associated with $Ω$). Our main result solves the problem for $Ω$ belonging to a non-trivial class of sets that we call diagonally-determined, and establishes the remarkable result that a least Chebyshev polynomial can be given via the classical, univariate, Chebyshev polynomial. In particular, the solution can be independent of the dimension. Diagonally-determined domains include centered balls in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in any norm, but can be non-convex and even non-simply connected. We also introduce a computational procedure, based on semidefinite programming hierarchies, to detect if a given semi-algebraic set is diagonally-determined.
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spellingShingle Least multivariate Chebyshev polynomials on diagonally determined sets
Dressler, Mareike
Foucart, Simon
Joldes, Mioara
de Klerk, Etienne
Lasserre, Jean-Bernard
Xu, Yuan
Optimization and Control
Primary: 41A10, 41A63, 90C22
We consider a new multivariate generalization of the classical monic (univariate) Chebyshev polynomial that minimizes the uniform norm on the interval $[-1,1]$. Let $Π^*_n$ be the subset of polynomials of degree at most $n$ in $d$ variables, whose homogeneous part of degree $n$ has coefficients summing up to $1$. The problem is determining a polynomial in $Π^*_n$ with the smallest uniform norm on a domain $Ω$, which we call a least Chebyshev polynomial (associated with $Ω$). Our main result solves the problem for $Ω$ belonging to a non-trivial class of sets that we call diagonally-determined, and establishes the remarkable result that a least Chebyshev polynomial can be given via the classical, univariate, Chebyshev polynomial. In particular, the solution can be independent of the dimension. Diagonally-determined domains include centered balls in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in any norm, but can be non-convex and even non-simply connected. We also introduce a computational procedure, based on semidefinite programming hierarchies, to detect if a given semi-algebraic set is diagonally-determined.
title Least multivariate Chebyshev polynomials on diagonally determined sets
topic Optimization and Control
Primary: 41A10, 41A63, 90C22
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19219