I don;t really know what you’re doing. Perhaps you want nonnegative before % in variables declaration of t, and you want X to be declared symmetric. Then you’ll get a finite optimal solution … of something.
Nevertheless,w hen the problem is declared unbounded by CVX, variable values after cvx_end are are not “optimal” values or -infinity objective value producing variable values… Based on results from the solver, CVX has determined the problem is unbounded, but does not provide corresponding variable values which achieve -infinity objective.
Instead of directly using the lambda_max_largest (which essentially solves the SDP that I’ve here), I’m trying to do the thing from scratch. I put the % before the nonnegative as I was testing both for t>=0 and any real t. When I constrain t>=0, it can find a solution but this shouldn’t be the case (as t can be any real).
When a problem is unbounded, the values returned in the variables represent an unbounded direction. They aren’t intended to be interpreted as a potential solution.