A geometric program (GP) is an

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problem of the form :

\begin
\mbox & f_0(x) \\
\mbox & f_i(x) \leq 1, \quad i=1, \ldots, m\\
& g_i(x) = 1, \quad i=1, \ldots, p,
\end

where

f_0,\dots,f_m

are posynomials and

g_1,\dots,g_p

are monomials. In the context of geometric programming (unlike standard mathematics), a monomial is a function from

\mathbb_^n

\mathbb

defined as :

x \mapsto c x_1^ x_2^ \cdots x_n^

where

c > 0 \

and

a_i \in \mathbb

. A posynomial is any sum of monomials.S. Boyd, S. J. Kim, L. Vandenberghe, and A. Hassibi.
A Tutorial on Geometric Programming
'' Retrieved 20 October 2019. Geometric programming is closely related to

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: any GP can be made convex by means of a change of variables. GPs have numerous applications, including component sizing in IC design, aircraft design,

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Convex form

Geometric programs are not in general convex optimization problems, but they can be transformed to convex problems by a change of variables and a transformation of the objective and constraint functions. In particular, after performing the change of variables

y_i = \log(x_i)

and taking the log of the objective and constraint functions, the functions

f_i

, i.e., the posynomials, are transformed into log-sum-exp functions, which are convex, and the functions

g_i

, i.e., the monomials, become

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. Hence, this transformation transforms every GP into an equivalent convex program. In fact, this log-log transformation can be used to convert a larger class of problems, known as log-log convex programming (LLCP), into an equivalent convex form.A. Agrawal, S. Diamond, and S. Boyd.
Disciplined Geometric Programming.
' Retrieved 8 January 2019.

Software

Several software packages exist to assist with formulating and solving geometric programs.
MOSEK
is a commercial solver capable of solving geometric programs as well as other non-linear optimization problems.
CVXOPT
is an open-source solver for convex optimization problems.
GPkit
is a Python package for cleanly defining and manipulating geometric programming models. There are a number of example GP models written with this packag
here

GGPLAB
is a MATLAB toolbox for specifying and solving geometric programs (GPs) and generalized geometric programs (GGPs).

is a Python-embedded modeling language for specifying and solving convex optimization problems, including GPs, GGPs, and LLCPs.

References

{{reflist Convex optimization

Convex form

Software

See also

References