Recht-Re Noncommutative Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Conjecture is False

Authors: Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical Our approach relies on the noncommutative Positivstellensatz, which allows us to reduce the conjectured inequality to a semidefnite program and the validity of the conjecture to certain bounds for the optimum values, which we show are false as soon as n = 5. We show how to transform Conjecture 1 into a form where the noncommutative Positivstellensatz applies, which implies in particular that for any specifc values of m and n, the conjecture can be checked via two semidefnite programs. This allows us to show in Section 3 that the conjecture is false as soon as m = n = 5.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Pseudocode No No structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks are provided in the paper. The methods are described using mathematical formulations and textual explanations.
Open Source Code Yes The actual numerical entries of the matrices appearing in (7) and (8) are omitted due to space constraints; but they can be found in the output of our program (code in supplement).
Open Datasets No The paper does not involve traditional dataset-based experiments with training, as it focuses on theoretical proofs and computational verification of mathematical properties. Therefore, no information about publicly available datasets for training is provided.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not describe experiments involving training, validation, or testing splits of a dataset, as it focuses on theoretical proofs and computational verification of mathematical properties.
Hardware Specification Yes Using a personal computer with an Intel Core i7-9700k processor and 16GB of RAM, our Se Du Mi (Sturm, 1999) program in Matlab takes 150 seconds.
Software Dependencies Yes Using a personal computer with an Intel Core i7-9700k processor and 16GB of RAM, our Se Du Mi (Sturm, 1999) program in Matlab takes 150 seconds.
Experiment Setup Yes For any fxed values of m and n, Conjecture 1C is in a form that can be checked by standard SDP solvers. The dimension of the SDP grows exponentially with m... For m = n = 5, the basis β has 1 + 5 + 52 = 31 monomials; the SDP in (6) has 1 + 5 + 52 + 53 + 54 + 55 = 3906 linear constraints, 312 6 + 1 = 5767 variables, and takes the form: minimize tr(C0Y ) subject to tr(Ci Y ) = bi, i = 1, . . . , 3906, Y = diag(λ, Y1, . . . , Y6) 0.