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On the rank minimization problem over a positive semidefinite linear matrix inequality

IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlPublished 1 January 1997Open access
Mehran Mesbahi, George P. Papavassilopoulos
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Abstract

We consider the problem of minimizing the rank of a positive semidefinite matrix, subject to the constraint that an affine transformation of it is also positive semidefinite. Our method for solving this problem employs ideas from the ordered linear complementarity theory and the notion of the least element in a vector lattice. This problem is of importance in many contexts,

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