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What are the injective embeddings of R^d into the cone of (semi-) positive definite matrices of dimension d?

How can we characterize the set of all injective functions from $\mathbb{R}^d$ to the set of all symmetric positive definite matrices of dimension d?
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Finding a specific solution to $X^T\Sigma X = D$

I'm looking to solve for a specific $X$ in the following equation: $$X^T\Sigma X = D,$$ where $\Sigma \succ 0$, $D$ is a diagonal matrix with strictly positive entries, and all matrices are square. It ...
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convex approximation for a non convex function

Consider the function $f\left( {{x_1},...,{x_M},{y_1},...,{y_N}} \right) = \left( {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^M {{\alpha _j}{x_j}} } \right)\left( {{e^{ - \sum\limits_{i = 1}^N {{\beta _i}{y_i}} }}} \right)$...
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Is first term of my cost function convex?

I have an optimization problem in the form of [\begin{array}{l} \mathop {{\rm{Minimize}}}\limits_{\bf{X}} \,\,\,2\left| \delta \right|\sqrt {{\rm{Tr}}\left( {{\bf{A}}{{\bf{X}}^2}} \right)} {\rm{ - ...
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Changing a nonlinear equality constraint into some conic inequality plus rank constraint

If we have a constraint optimization problem in which one of our constraint is $\prod\limits_{k = 1}^N {\left( {x - {a_k}} \right) = 0} $ . How could this nonlinear equality condition be changed into ...
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Eigenvalues of a given parametrized matrix.

Let $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ be two complex rank-one $N\times N$ positive semi-definite matrices. Let the matrix $\mathbf{C}$ be defined as \begin{align} \mathbf{C}=\left(\mathbf{I}*\frac{1}{\...