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Is the matrix $\left({2m\choose 2j-i}\right)_{i,j=1}^{2m-1}$ nonsingular?
Suppose we have a $(2m-1) \times (2m-1)$ matrix defined as follows:
$$\left({2m\choose 2j-i}\right)_{i,j=1}^{2m-1}.$$
For example, if $m=3$, the matrix is
$$\begin{pmatrix}6 & 20 & 6& 0 ...
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Conjecture on maximum of symmetric combinatoric function
A curious symmetric function crossed my way in some quantum mechanics calculations, and I'm interested its maximum value (for which I do have a conjecture).
(The question was first asked at math.SE, ...
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Maximization of a cubic form over the $14$-dimensional sphere
For any integers $i$ and $j$ such as $1\le i<j\le6$, let $x_{ij}$ be a nonnegative real number.
Is it true that, given the condition
$$\sum_{1\le i<j\le6}x_{ij}^2=1,$$
the sum
$$\sum_{1\le i<...
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$L_2$ minimizing makespan vs. $L_\infty$ minimizing makespan
There are $n$ positive real numbers. We partition these numbers into $m$ parts, the size of each part is the sum the numbers in this part. Maximum size of the parts is called a makespan of a partition....
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Higher dimensional scutoids?
The recent discovery of scutoids in biological structures is fascinating. Two scutoids are depicted below (from Scientists Have Discovered an Entirely New Shape, And It Was Hiding in Your Cells), each ...
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Finding sparsest solution of a linear system
I want to find the solution with most zero-components for the following problem:
$Ax=b$ for $A\in \mathbb{R}^{k\times n}, b \in \mathbb{R}^{k},k<n$, where $x$ is real and has no additional ...
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Find subset of collection of sets whose intersection has minimum average value
Let $a_1,\ldots,a_n>0$, and let $S_1,\ldots,S_d\subset\{1,\ldots,n\}$ (all non-empty).
For any $I\subseteq\{1,\ldots,d\}$, define $S(I)=\bigcap_{i\in I} S_i$.
Given some $1\leq s < d$, consider ...
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A conjecture about the barycenter of a polytope
Could someone help me with the following conjecture? Thanks a lot!
Suppose I have a polytope $\Delta$ in $\mathbb R^n (n\geq 2)$ with coordinates $(x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n)$ defined by linear ...
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On a combinatorial inequality
Is it true that
\begin{gather}
\min\left(\lambda_{\min}(M_{12}), \lambda_{\min}(M_{13}), \lambda_{\min}(M_{14}), \lambda_{\min}(M_{15}), \lambda_{\min}(M_{23}), \\ \lambda_{\min}(M_{24}), \lambda_{\...
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Does this simple non-convex problem involving discrete phase shifts have an exact solution?
Let the optimization problem be
\begin{equation}
\max_{\phi_n} \left|\sum_{n=1}^N e^{i\phi_n} a_n \right|,
\end{equation}
where $a_n\in\mathbb{C}$ and the optimization variables have discrete phase ...
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Techniques for proving that a set of constraints over the integers are inconsistent
I have a problem which boils down to showing that a set of constraints has no solutions. A simplified version of this constraint system would be the following system:
$$
\left\{
\begin{array}{l}
\...
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Best projection on non-convex discrete set with two constraints
I want to compute the projection of a vector $\left( x\right) _{1\leq
i,j\leq n}\in \lbrack 0,1]^{n\times n}$ on the following discrete set
$$
S=\left\{ x\in \{0,1\}^{n\times n}:x_{i,j}+x_{j,i}\leq 1;\...
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Finding $P$ points among $N$ to approximate a probability density function?
Let $f$ be a probability density function (positive such that $\int_{\mathbb{R}} f(x) \mathrm{d} x = 1$) and $X_0 = \{x_n\}_{1\leq n \leq N}$ be $N$ given real points. We also fix $1 \leq P \leq N$ ...
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On an optimization question
Suppose we have a square matrix $M=(1-z)A+zB$ where $A,B$ have integer entries from $\{0,1\}$ with $\det(A)+\det(B)=1$ and $\det(A),\det(B),per(A),per(B)\in\{0,1\}$ and we want to find $z\in[0,1]$ ...
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Minimising kurtosis (non-convex). Can I use algebraic geometry or alternate methods to show uniqueness of a particular solution?
I consider a weighted sum of $n$ identically-distributed correlated random variables. The weights in the sum, $w_i$ for $i=1, 2,...,n$, satisfy $w_i>=0$ and $\sum_{i=1}^{n}w_i=1$. I am ...
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Lower bound on the value $\textbf{1}^Tx$ such as $Ax\geq b$
The problem may be formulated as follows:
We are given a set of $m$ positive numbers $\{b_1,...,b_m\}$ and a set of $n$ positive numbers $\{v_1,...,v_n\}$. We have $v_j\leq K$, $j=1,...,n$, for a ...
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Optimization of a multilinear function over a product of hypersimplices
Let $P = \Delta_1 \times \cdots \times \Delta_N$ be the Cartesian product of $N$ hypersimplices. Let $f : P \to \mathbb{R}$ be a multilinear function of $N$ variables, ie $x_i \mapsto f(x_1, \ldots, ...
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Multiobjective semidefinite programming
Let $C$ be size $n \times n^{2}$.
Let $B$ be size $2^{g(n)} \times n^{2}$ where $g(n) > n$.
There is only one $\mathcal{1}$ per row of $C$ and remaining entries of $C$ are $\mathcal{0}$.
$B$ is ...
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