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For spanning slab normals, apply the maximum of finitely many Rademacher linear forms bound to $u_i=(V{\Lambda }^{1/2}{)}^T{a}_i$, whose squared norms are $a_i^{T}X{a}_i\le 1$. Some sign vector has scaling denominator squared at most $2\log (2m)$. Rademacher rounding for a semidefinite relaxation then produces a feasible vector of squared norm at least the displayed fraction of the SDP optimum. This is an existence guarantee from the probabilistic method.

Use the spectral theorem for real symmetric matrices to write $X^{\ast }=V\Lambda V^T$, with $V$ orthogonal and $\Lambda$ diagonal and nonnegative. For any sign vector, ${\xi }_j^2=1$, soThis is an exact identity for every sign choice. Put $M(\xi )={\max }_i|a_i^T\hat{x}(\xi )|$. When $M>0$, the Rademacher rounding for a semidefinite relaxation givesHence $x(\xi )$ is feasible. In the finite spanning case from part (a), $\mathrm{tr}{X}^{\ast }>0$ makes $\hat{x}\ne 0$, and the spanning condition then gives $M>0$. If a nonzero $\hat{x}$ instead had $M=0$, it would be an unbounded feasible direction rather than a vector to divide by zero.