A Note on the Convex Hull of Finitely Many Projections of Spectrahedra

Abstract

A spectrahedron is a set defined by a linear matrix inequality. A projection of a spectrahedron is often called a semidefinitely representable set. We show that the convex hull of a finite union of such projections is again a projection of a spectrahedron. This improves upon the result of Helton and Nie, who prove the same result in the case of bounded sets.

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