Continuous Optimisation HT26, Useful miscellany


Flashcards

Rayleigh quotient eigenvalue bound

@State the Rayleigh quotient bound for eigenvalues.


Suppose:

  • $s \in \mathbb R^n \setminus {0}$
  • $\mathbf M \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$ symmetric

Then:

\[\lambda _ \min(\mathbf M) \le \frac{s^\top \mathbf M s}{ \vert \vert s \vert \vert ^2} \le \lambda _ \max(\mathbf M)\]

@Prove the ∆rayleigh-ritz-theorem, i.e. that if

  • $s \in \mathbb R^n \setminus {0}$
  • $\mathbf M \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$ symmetric

then:

\[\lambda _ \min(\mathbf M) \le \frac{s^\top \mathbf M s}{ \vert \vert s \vert \vert ^2} \le \lambda _ \max(\mathbf M)\]

@todo, once completed sheet 2.

Characterisation of Lipschitz continuity in terms of bounded Hessian

@State an exact characterisation of when $\nabla f$ is Lipschitz continuous in terms of the Hessian.


Suppose $f \in \mathcal C^2$, then $\nabla f$ is Lipschitz continuous iff $\nabla^2 f$ is uniformly bounded above.

@Prove that for $f \in \mathcal C^2$, $\nabla f$ is Lipschitz continuous iff $\nabla^2 f$ is uniformly bounded above.


@todo, once completed sheet 2.




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