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most citedExploiting symmetries in SDP-relaxations for polynomial optimization

82 citations · 169 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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43 papers

math.CO2026

Diagonal Specht ideals and their varieties

Anna Escofet, Cordian Riener, Hugues Verdure

We study the diagonal Specht ideals , , generated by the -isoty…

math.RA2026

Eigenvalues of locally positive semidefinite matrices: Non-convexity and Geometry

Jose Acevedo, Grigoriy Blekherman, Sebastian Debus +2

A real symmetric matrix is called -locally positive semidefinite if all of its principal submatrices are positive semidefinite. We investigate the spectral geometry…

math.AC2026

Symmetric and Isotypic Hilbert Series for Symmetric Ideals

Henri Breloer, Cordian Riener

An ideal in a polynomial ring is symmetric if it is invariant under any permutation of variables. In this paper, we define and study the symmetric and isotypic Hilbert series for s…

math.AG2025

Quadrature rules with few nodes supported on algebraic curves

Cordian Riener, Ettore Teixeira Turatti

We investigate quadrature rules for measures supported on real algebraic and rational curves, focusing on the {odd-degree} case \(2s-1\). Adopting an optimization viewpoint, we min…

math.AG2025

Symbolic Computation with Symmetric Polynomials in Real Algebraic Geometry

Cordian Riener, Thi Xuan Vu

Symmetry plays a central role in accelerating symbolic computation involving polynomials. This chapter surveys recent developments and foundational methods that leverage the inhere…

cs.SC2025

Deciding Connectivity in Symmetric Semi-Algebraic Sets

Cordian. Riener, Robin Schabert, Thi Xuan Vu

A semi-algebraic set is a subset of defined by a finite collection of polynomial equations and inequalities. In this paper, we investigate the problem of determining…

math.AG2024

Symmetric nonnegative functions, the tropical Vandermonde cell and superdominance of power sums

Jose Acevedo, Grigoriy Blekherman, Sebastian Debus +1

We study nonnegative and sums of squares symmetric (and even symmetric) functions of fixed degree. We can think of these as limit cones of symmetric nonnegative polynomials and sym…

math.AG2024

Constructively describing orbit spaces of finite groups by few inequalities

Philippe Moustrou, Cordian Riener, Robin Schabert

Let be a finite group acting linearly on . A celebrated Theorem of Procesi and Schwarz gives an explicit description of the orbit space as a…

cs.SC2024

Connectivity in Symmetric Semi-Algebraic Sets

Cordian Riener, Robin Schabert, Thi Xuan Vu

Semi-algebraic set is a subset of the real space defined by polynomial equations and inequalities. In this paper, we consider the problem of deciding whether two given points in a…

math.AG2024

On nonnegative invariant quartics in type A

Sebastian Debus, Charu Goel, Salma Kuhlmann +1

The equivariant nonnegativity versus sums of squares question has been solved for any infinite series of essential reflection groups but type A. As a first step to a classification…

math.AG2024

Slices of Stable Polynomials and Connections to the Grace-Walsh-Szegő theorem

Sebastian Debus, Cordian Riener, Robin Schabert

Univariate polynomials are called stable with respect to a domain if all of their roots lie in . We study linear slices of the space of stable univariate polynomials with re…

math.OC2023★ 1 cited

A semidefinite programming hierarchy for covering problems in discrete geometry

Cordian Riener, Jan Rolfes, Frank Vallentin

In this paper we present a new semidefinite programming hierarchy for covering problems in compact metric spaces. Over the last years, these kind of hierarchies were developed prim…

math.OC2023

Symmetric SAGE and SONC forms, exactness and quantitative gaps

Philippe Moustrou, Cordian Riener, Thorsten Theobald +1

The classes of sums of arithmetic-geometric exponentials (SAGE) and of sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials (SONC) provide nonnegativity certificates which are based on the ineq…

cs.SC2023★ 2 cited

Faster real root decision algorithm for symmetric polynomials

George Labahn, Cordian Riener, Mohab Safey El Din +2

In this paper, we consider the problem of deciding the existence of real solutions to a system of polynomial equations having real coefficients, and which are invariant under the a…

math.OC2023

Symmetries in polynomial optimization

Philippe Moustrou, Cordian Riener, Hugues Verdure

This chapter investigates how symmetries can be used to reduce the computational complexity in polynomial optimization problems. A focus will be specifically given on the Moment-SO…

math.AG2023★ 5 cited

Optimization of trigonometric polynomials with crystallographic symmetry and spectral bounds for set avoiding graphs

Evelyne Hubert, Tobias Metzlaff, Philippe Moustrou +1

Trigonometric polynomials are usually defined on the lattice of integers.We consider the larger class of weight and root lattices with crystallographic symmetry.This article gives…

math.AG2023

The Wonderful Geometry of the Vandermonde map

Jose Acevedo, Grigoriy Blekherman, Sebastian Debus +1

We study the geometry of the image of the nonnegative orthant under the power-sum map and the elementary symmetric polynomials map. After analyzing the image in finitely many varia…

math.CO2022

The poset of Specht ideals for hyperoctahedral groups

Sebastian Debus, Philippe Moustrou, Cordian Riener +1

Specht polynomials classically realize the irreducible representations of the symmetric group. The ideals defined by these polynomials provide a strong connection with the combinat…

math.AG2022

Equivariant algebraic and semi-algebraic geometry of infinite affine space

Mario Kummer, Cordian Riener

We study -orbit closures of not necessarily closed points in the Zariski spectrum of the infinite polynomial ring $\mathbb{C}[x_{ij}:\, i\in\mathbb{N},\,j\in[…

math.AG2022★ 2 cited

Orbit spaces of Weyl groups acting on compact tori: a unified and explicit polynomial description

Evelyne Hubert, Tobias Metzlaff, Cordian Riener

The Weyl group of a crystallographic root system has a nonlinear action on the compact torus. The orbit space of this action is a compact basic semi-algebraic set. We present a pol…

math.AG2022★ 2 cited

Linear slices of hyperbolic polynomials and positivity of symmetric polynomial functions

Cordian Riener, Robin Schabert

A real univariate polynomial of degree is called hyperbolic if all of its roots are on the real line. Such polynomials appear quite naturally in different applications, for…

math.AG2021

Return of the plane evolute

Ragni Piene, Cordian Riener, Boris Shapiro

Below we consider the evolutes of plane real-algebraic curves and discuss some of their complex and real-algebraic properties. In particular, for a given degree , we provid…

cs.CC2021

#P-hardness proofs of matrix immanants evaluated on restricted matrices

Istvan Miklos, Cordian Riener

We establish the -hardness of computing a broad class of immanants, even when restricted to specific categories of matrices. Concretely, we prove that computing -immanants…

math.OC2021

Symmetry reduction in AM/GM-based optimization

Philippe Moustrou, Helen Naumann, Cordian Riener +2

The arithmetic mean/geometric mean-inequality (AM/GM-inequality) facilitates classes of non-negativity certificates and of relaxation techniques for polynomials and, more generally…