Handelman rank of zero-diagonal quadratic programs over a hypercube and its applications

It has been observed that the Handelman’s certificate of positivity of a polynomial over a compact polyhedron offers a hierarchical relaxation scheme for polynomial programs. The Handelman hierarchy seems particularly suitable for a class of combinatorial optimizations that are formulated as a zero-diagonal quadratic program over a hypercube. In this paper, we present an error analysis of Handelman hierarchy applied to the special class of polynomial programs and its implications in the computation of the combinatorial optimization problems. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013