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Aug 16, 2014 at 22:34 history edited borntotry83 CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 13, 2014 at 2:38 comment added borntotry83 Nice ways to tackle this problem. The second route looked more promising, but doing similar steps to the ones you described, now with the spectral norm involved, and finding another inequality seems challenging.
Aug 12, 2014 at 16:17 comment added user35593 other ansatz: As $f$ is convex there is Matrix $A$ and $c>0$ s.t. $$f(X) \geq f(X_1)+\langle A, X-X_1 \rangle + c \|X-X_1\|_F^2$$ where $\langle A,B \rangle:=trace(A^TB)$. Note that $\|A\|_F^2=\langle A,A \rangle$ and hence $$f(X)+\|X\|_F^2=f(X_1)+\|X_1\|_F^2+\langle A+2X_1,X-X_1\rangle+(1+c) \|X-X_1\|_F^2$$ and by the minimality of $X_1$ we get $A=-2X_1$. Now to prove that $f(X_2)\geq f(X_1)$ it would suffice by the first inequ. that $$\langle 2X_1,X_1-X_2\rangle+\|X-X_1\|_F^2\geq 0.$$ For this it would suffice to prove that $$\langle 2X_1,X_1-X_2\rangle\geq 0.$$
Aug 12, 2014 at 15:39 comment added user35593 An idea: define $$X_t=\text{argmin} f(X)+t ||X||_F^2+(1-t)n||X||_2^2.$$ and then try to prove that $t \mapsto f(X_t)$ is monoton. However I dont know if this works or not.
Aug 12, 2014 at 12:17 history asked borntotry83 CC BY-SA 3.0