Smoothed analysis of complex conic condition numbers

Abstract

Smoothed analysis of complexity bounds and condition numbers has been done, so far, on a case by case basis. In this paper we consider a reasonably large class of condition numbers for problems over the complex numbers and we obtain smoothed analysis estimates for elements in this class depending only on geometric invariants of the corresponding sets of ill-posed inputs. These estimates are for a version of smoothed analysis proposed in this paper which, to the best of our knowledge, appears to be new. Several applications to linear and polynomial equation solving show that estimates obtained in this way are easy to derive and quite accurate.