%0 Journal Article %T Convex Separation from Optimization via Heuristics %A Lawrence M. Ioannou %A Benjamin C. Travaglione %A Donny Cheung %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %X Let $K$ be a full-dimensional convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$. We describe a new polynomial-time Turing reduction from the weak separation problem for $K$ to the weak optimization problem for $K$ that is based on a geometric heuristic. We compare our reduction, which relies on analytic centers, with the standard, more general reduction. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0603089v1