How to Convexify the Intersection of a Second Order Cone and a Nonconvex Quadratic

Sam Burer, Fatma Kilinc-Karzan

Published 2014-06-04, updated 2016-05-24Version 3

A recent series of papers has examined the extension of disjunctive-programming techniques to mixed-integer second-order-cone programming. For example, it has been shown---by several authors using different techniques---that the convex hull of the intersection of an ellipsoid, $E$, and a split disjunction, $(l - x_j)(x_j - u) \le 0$ with $l < u$, equals the intersection of $E$ with an additional second-order-cone representable (SOCr) set. In this paper, we study more general intersections of the form $K \cap Q$ and $K \cap Q \cap H$, where $K$ is a SOCr cone, $Q$ is a nonconvex cone defined by a single homogeneous quadratic, and $H$ is an affine hyperplane. Under several easy-to-verify conditions, we derive simple, computable convex relaxations $K \cap S$ and $K \cap S \cap H$, where $S$ is a SOCr cone. Under further conditions, we prove that these two sets capture precisely the corresponding conic/convex hulls. Our approach unifies and extends previous results, and we illustrate its applicability and generality with many examples.