Aspects of Semidefinite Programming: Interior Point Algorithms and Selected Applications (Hardcover, 2002)

Acknowledgments. List of notation. 1. Introduction. Part I: Theory and Algorithms. 2. Duality, Optimality, and Degeneracy. 3. The Central Path. 4. Self-Dual Embeddings. 5. The Primal Logarithmic Barrier Method. 6. Primal-Dual Affine-Scaling Methods. 7. Primal-Dual Path-Following Methods. 8. Primal-Dual Potential Reduction Methods. Part II: Applications. 9. Convex Quadratic Approximation. 10. The Lovasz upsilon-Function. 11. Graph Colouring and the Max-Kappa-Cut Problem. 12. The Stability Number of a Graph. 13. The Satisfiability Problem. Appendices. References. Index.