Laws of inertia in higher degree binary forms

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10186-7MaRDI QIDQ3550555zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bruce Reznick

Publication date 31 March 2010

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.5559

zbMATH Keywords

binary quarticsbinary sexticsrepresentation of real formsSylvester's Law of Inertia

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forms of degree higher than two (11E76) Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21)

Abstract: We consider representations of real forms of even degree as a linear combination of powers of real linear forms, counting the number of positive and negative coefficients. We show that the natural generalization of Sylvester's Law of Inertia holds for binary quartics, but fails for binary sextics.

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