In this paper, we study, for the first time, nonconvex minimax separable quadratic optimization problems with multiple separable quadratic constraints and their second-order cone programming (SOCP) relaxations. Under suitable conditions, we establish exact SOCP relaxation for minimax nonconvex separable quadratic programs. We show that various important classes of specially structured minimax quadratic optimization problems admit exact SOCP relaxations under easily verifiable conditions. These classes include some minimax extended trust-region problems, minimax uniform quadratic optimization problems, max dispersion problems, and some robust quadratic optimization problems under bounded data uncertainty. The present work shows that nonconvex minimax separable quadratic problems with quadratic constraints, which contain a hidden closed and convex epigraphical set, exhibit exact SOCP relaxations.

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This paper studies the capacity allocation game between duopolistic airlines which could offer callable products. Previous literature has shown that callable products provide a riskless source of additional rev- enue for a monopolistic airline. We examine the impact of the introduction of callable products on the revenues and the booking limits of duopolistic airlines. The analytical results demonstrate that, when there is no spill of low-fare customers, offering callable products is a dominant strategy of both airlines and provides Pareto gains to both airlines. When customers of both fare classes spill, offering callable products is no longer a dominant strategy and may harm the revenues of the airlines. Numerical ex- amples demonstrate that whether the two airlines offer callable products and whether offering callable products is beneficial to the two airlines mainly depends on their loads and capacities. Specifically, when the difference between the loads of the airlines is large, the loads of the airlines play the most important role. When the difference between the loads of the airlines is small, the capacities of the airlines play the most important role. Moreover, numerical examples show that the booking limits of the two airlines in the case with callable products are always higher than those in the case without callable products.

The nuclear norm is widely used to induce low-rank solutions for many optimization problems with matrix variables. Recently, it has been shown that the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) and the alternating direction method (ADM) are very efficient for many convex programming problems arising from various applications, provided that the resulting subproblems are sufficiently simple to have closed-form solutions. In this paper, we are interested in the application of the ALM and the ADM for some nuclear norm involved minimization problems. When the resulting subproblems do not have closed-form solutions, we propose to linearize these subproblems such that closed-form solutions of these linearized subproblems can be easily derived. Global convergence results of these linearized ALM and ADM are established under standard assumptions. Finally, we verify the effectiveness and efficiency of these new methods by some numerical experiments.

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