Why Study the Spherical Convexity of Non-Homogeneous Quadratic Functions, and What Makes It Surprising?
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| author | Bolton, R. Németh, S. Z. |
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| contents | This paper presents necessary, sufficient, and equivalent conditions for the spherical convexity of non-homogeneous quadratic functions. In addition to motivating this study and identifying useful criteria for determining whether such functions are spherically convex, we discovered surprising properties that distinguish spherically convex quadratic functions from their geodesically convex counterparts in both hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces. Since spherically convex functions over the entire sphere are constant, we restricted our focus to proper spherically convex subsets of the sphere. Although most of our results pertain to non-homogeneous quadratic functions on the spherically convex set of unit vectors with positive coordinates, we also present findings for more general spherically convex sets. Beyond the general non-homogeneous quadratic functions, we consider explicit special cases where the matrix in the function's definition is of a specific type, such as positive, diagonal, and Z-matrix. |
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| spellingShingle | Why Study the Spherical Convexity of Non-Homogeneous Quadratic Functions, and What Makes It Surprising? Bolton, R. Németh, S. Z. Optimization and Control This paper presents necessary, sufficient, and equivalent conditions for the spherical convexity of non-homogeneous quadratic functions. In addition to motivating this study and identifying useful criteria for determining whether such functions are spherically convex, we discovered surprising properties that distinguish spherically convex quadratic functions from their geodesically convex counterparts in both hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces. Since spherically convex functions over the entire sphere are constant, we restricted our focus to proper spherically convex subsets of the sphere. Although most of our results pertain to non-homogeneous quadratic functions on the spherically convex set of unit vectors with positive coordinates, we also present findings for more general spherically convex sets. Beyond the general non-homogeneous quadratic functions, we consider explicit special cases where the matrix in the function's definition is of a specific type, such as positive, diagonal, and Z-matrix. |
| title | Why Study the Spherical Convexity of Non-Homogeneous Quadratic Functions, and What Makes It Surprising? |
| topic | Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04205 |