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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 339 2 c Solution by
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Set . SDP feasibility impliesChoose . For the uniform sign vector, whose coordinates are independent Rademacher random variables, the supplied bound for the maximum of finitely many Rademacher linear forms givesA positive-probability event in this finite space contains at least one sign vector. ThusThe strict inequality in the supplied probability estimate matters: at the chosen threshold its right-hand side is zero.
For that sign vector, part (b) gives a feasible original point satisfying . Taking the best original objective proves the unheaded concluding request as well:This is the logarithmic approximation bound for slab-constrained quadratic maximization, obtained by the probabilistic method. It is a finite-value rounding guarantee under the spanning/attainment conditions explained above.
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