{ "id": "2403.08617", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-03-13T15:30:54.000Z", "updated": "2024-03-13T15:30:54.000Z", "title": "A semidefinite programming characterization of the Crawford number", "authors": [ "Shmuel Friedland", "Cynthia Vinzant" ], "comment": "8 pages", "categories": [ "math.NA", "cs.NA" ], "abstract": "We give a semidefinite programming characterization of the Crawford number. We show that the computation of the Crawford number within $\\varepsilon$ precision is computable in polynomial time in the data and $|\\log \\varepsilon |$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-03-13T15:30:54.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "15A60", "15A69", "68Q25", "68W25", "90C22", "90C51" ], "keywords": [ "semidefinite programming characterization", "crawford number", "polynomial time" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }