Irreducible noncommutative defining polynomials for convex sets have degree 4 or less

DOI10.1512/iumj.2007.56.2904zbMath1128.47020OpenAlexW2064981636MaRDI QIDQ5296418

J. William Helton, Harry Dym, Scott A. McCullough

Publication date: 1 August 2007

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1512/iumj.2007.56.2904

zbMATH Keywords

linear matrix inequalitiesconvex sets of matricesnoncommutative semialgebraic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear operator inequalities (47A63) Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices (15A45) Functions whose values are linear operators (operator- and matrix-valued functions, etc., including analytic and meromorphic ones) (47A56) Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators (47A20) Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Convex sets and cones of operators (47L07)

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