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Squared polynomial approximation kernels for the hypercube: improved error bounds and implications for Lasserre hierarchies

Sander Gribling, Etienne de Klerk, Juan C. Vera

We propose a new family of polynomial approximation kernels for approximating nonnegative polynomials on the hypercube . Our Kernels produce polynomial sums-of-squares of…

math.OC2026

Degree Bounds for Positivstellensätze of general semialgebraic sets

Olga Heijmans-Kuryatnikova, Juan C. Vera, Luis F. Zuluaga

Let denote the minimum of a polynomial over a (general) compact semialgebraic set . A standard way to approximate is via hierarc…

math.OC2025

Linear Convergence and Error Bounds for Optimization Without Strong Convexity

Kira van Treek, Javier F. Peña, Juan C. Vera +1

Many optimization algorithms$\unicode{x2013}$including gradient descent, proximal methods, and operator splitting techniques$\unicode{x2013}$can be formulated as fixed-point iterat…

math.OC2025

Low degree sum-of-squares bounds for the stability number: a copositive approach

Luis Felipe Vargas, Juan C. Vera, Peter J. C. Dickinson

The stability number of a graph , denoted as , is the maximum size of an independent (stable) set in . Semidefinite programming (SDP) methods, which originated from Lov…

math.OC2025

SDP bounds on the stability number via ADMM and intermediate levels of the Lasserre hierarchy

Lennart Sinjorgo, Renata Sotirov, Juan C. Vera

We consider the Lasserre hierarchy for computing bounds on the stability number of graphs. The semidefinite programs (SDPs) arising from this hierarchy involve large matrix variabl…

math.OC2025

Revisiting the convergence rate of the Lasserre hierarchy for polynomial optimization over the hypercube

Sander Gribling, Etienne de Klerk, Juan Vera

We revisit the problem of minimizing a given polynomial on the hypercube . Lasserre's hierarchy (also known as the moment- or sum-of-squares hierarchy) provides a seq…