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The entropic barrier: a simple and optimal universal self-concordant barrier

Published on Aug 20, 20152679 Views

We prove that the Fenchel dual of the log-Laplace transform of the uniform measure on a convex body in $\R^n$ is a $(1+o(1)) n$-self-concordant barrier, improving a seminal result of Nesterov and Nemi

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