Imaginary Projections: Complex Versus Real Coefficients

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2022.107308MaRDI QIDQ6373168arXivFDO

Authors Stephan Gardoll, Mahsa Sayyary Namin, Thorsten Theobald

Publication date 19 July 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JPAA.2022.107308

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in real and complex fields: location of zeros (algebraic theorems) (12D10) Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Real polynomials: location of zeros (26C10) Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15) Polynomials and rational functions of several complex variables (32A08) Semidefinite programming (90C22)

arXiv classification

math.AG

Abstract: Given a multivariate complex polynomial $pinmathbbC[z_1,ldots,z_n]$, the imaginary projection $mathcalI(p)$ of $p$ is defined as the projection of the variety $mathcalV(p)$ onto its imaginary part. We focus on studying the imaginary projection of complex polynomials and we state explicit results for certain families of them with arbitrarily large degree or dimension. Then, we restrict to complex conic sections and give a full characterization of their imaginary projections, which generalizes a classification for the case of real conics. That is, given a bivariate complex polynomial $pinmathbbC[z_1,z_2]$ of total degree two, we describe the number and the boundedness of the components in the complement of $mathcalI(p)$ as well as their boundary curves and the spectrahedral structure of the components. We further show a realizability result for strictly convex complement components which is in sharp contrast to the case of real polynomials.

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