Conic approximation to nonconvex quadratic programming with convex quadratic constraints

In this paper, a conic reformulation and approximation is proposed for solving a nonconvex quadratic programming problem subject to several convex quadratic constraints. The original problem is transformed into a linear conic programming problem, which can be approximated by a sequence of linear conic programming problems over the dual cone of the cone of nonnegative quadratic functions. Since the dual cone of the cone of nonnegative quadratic functions has a linear matrix inequality representation, each linear conic programming problem in the sequence can be solved efficiently using the semidefinite programming techniques. In order to speed up the convergence of the approximation sequence and relieve the computational effort in solving the linear conic programming problems, an adaptive scheme is adopted in the proposed algorithm. We prove that the lower bounds generated by the linear conic programming problems converge to the optimal value of the original problem. Several numerical examples are used to illustrate how the algorithm works and the computational results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.