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Nonlinear Equations - UFRJ

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[SEC. 10.4: THE GEOMETRIC VERSION... 155<br />

B<br />

A<br />

Figure 10.3: The condition metric for diagonal, real matrices is<br />

min(|x|, |y|) −2 〈·, ·〉. Geodesics in the smooth part are easy to construct.<br />

But what is the shortest path from A to B?<br />

In particular, the maximum of µ along a geodesic arc is attained<br />

at the extremities. The non-linear case is still open.<br />

Starting the homotopy at a global minimum of µ (such as (10.20)),<br />

one would have a guarantee that the condition number along the<br />

path is bounded above by the condition number of the target F 1 .<br />

Moreover, a ‘short’ geodesic between F 1 and a global minimum is<br />

known to exist [14].<br />

There is nothing very particular about geodesics, except that they<br />

minimize distance. One can settle for a short path, that is a piecewise<br />

linear path with condition length bounded by a uniform polynomial<br />

in the input size.<br />

This book finishes with a question.<br />

Question 10.22. Given a random f 1 , is it possible to deterministically<br />

find a starting pair (f 0 , z 0 ) and a short path to (f 1 , z 1 ) in polynomial<br />

time?

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