Matrix completion with Pfaffians constrain

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Perform matrix completion of a real $2n \times 2n$ matrix $\mathbf{C}$ (i.e., we have only a few entries of the matrix $C$ and want to fill in the remaining ones) with the constraints that:

  1. $\mathbf{C}$ is positive semidefinite with eigenvalues less than $1$,
  2. $\mathbf{C}$ has some submatrices with a fixed Pfaffian

We have the assumption that there exists at least one solution that satisfies the above constraints.

It is possible to solve in $O(\mathrm{poly}(n))$ time the following problem?

(Note that, without constraint $2$), it would be a semidefinite program, so the solution can be found in $O(\mathrm{poly}(n))$ time.