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It is well known result of linear optimization theory that, if a finite set $S$ of linear inequalities in real variables $x_1,x_2, \ldots ,x_n$ implies a linear inequality $i$ in $x_1,x_2, \ldots ,x_n$, then $i$ can be written as a positive linear combination of the inequalities in $S$.
I wonder if an analogous property holds for moduluses of complex variables : let $A=(a_{ij}) (1 \leq i \leq p, 1 \leq j \leq n)$ be a matrix in ${\cal M}_{p,n}({\mathbb C})$ and $B=(b_1,b_2, \ldots b_p)^{T}$ be a column matrix in ${\cal M}_{p,1}({\mathbb R}^{+})$. Then we may denote by $|AZ| \leq B$ (where $Z=(z_1,z_2, \ldots z_n)^{T}$ is a column matrix in ${\cal M}_{n,1}({\mathbb C})$ ) the finite set of modulus constraints $\big| \sum_{j=1}^{n}a_{ij}z_j \big| \leq b_i$ for $1\leq i\leq p$. Suppose this set of constraints implies another modulus constraint (*), say $\big| \sum_{j=1}^{n}c_{j}z_j \big| \leq d$, with $c_j \in {\mathbb C}$ and $d \geq 0$.