Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

In this lecture, I will talk about moment based SDP hierarchies (which are duals of SOS relaxations for polynomial optimization) in the context of graph partitioning. The focus will be on a certain way of rounding such hierarchies, whose quality is related to the problem of column based matrix reconstruction. Finally I will describe how to relate this to the spectral or isoperimetric profiles of the underlying constraint graph.