Is it an acceptable objective function format?

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Dear friends,

I have not installed the CVX package yet, because I am not sure whether CVX can solve it. I know that my problem is convex but I am not sure whether the objective function can be accepted by cvx as a convex one. I have read the documents but I did not find my answer there.

So, it is appreciated if you could let me know whether the following expression of the objective function is acceptable by CVX.

sum((kron(ones(1,4),a’) C kron(eye(4),a)).^q)

a is the variable vector. C is a constant matrix and q is a constant integer.

Regards,
Roozbeh Mohammadian

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Is C positive semidefinite? And is q positive?

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Yes, C is positive semi definite and q is positive and even

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Looks good so far. Final question: why the sum()? The quantity inside looks like a scalar to me.