Jiayi Guo , Hao Qiu , Zhen Wang , Zizhuo Wang , Xinxin Zhang
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Abstract
We study the moment problem with nonnegative Chebyshev ambiguity set (MPNC), which is foundational to distributionally robust optimization (DRO) and has applications in inventory, pricing, and portfolio selection problems. While univariate MPNC is well-studied, bivariate/multivariate MPNC lacks analytical solutions. We characterize bivariate MPNC's optimal support for piecewise-linear objectives, propose an exact numerical method, and derive closed-form solutions for two instances. We apply our result to a DRO newsvendor problem and derive interesting managerial insights.
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