A GENERAL DUALITY THEORY FOR CLONES

Inspired by work of Mašulović, we outline a general duality theory for clones that will allow us to dualize any given clone, together with its relational counterpart and the relationship between them. Afterwards, we put the approach to work and illustrate it by producing some specific results for concrete examples as well as some general results that come from studying the duals of clones in a rather abstract fashion.

Duality in finite dimensional complex space

The idea of duality is now a widely accepted and useful idea in the analysis of optimization problems posed in real finite dimensional vector spaces. Although similar ideas have filtered over to the analysis of optimization problems in complex space, these have mainly been concerned with problems of the linear and quadratic programming variety. In this paper we present a general duality theory for convex mathematical programs in finite dimensional complex space, and, by means of an example, show that this formulation captures all previous results in the area.