Lower bounds for polynomials using geometric programming

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Abstract: We make use of a result of Hurwitz and Reznick, and a consequence of this result due to Fidalgo and Kovacec, to determine a new sufficient condition for a polynomial finmathbbR[X1,...,Xn] of even degree to be a sum of squares. This result generalizes a result of Lasserre and a result of Fidalgo and Kovacec, and it also generalizes the improvements of these results given in [6]. We apply this result to obtain a new lower bound fgp for f, and we explain how fgp can be computed using geometric programming. The lower bound fgp is generally not as good as the lower bound fsos introduced by Lasserre and Parrilo and Sturmfels, which is computed using semidefinite programming, but a run time comparison shows that, in practice, the computation of fgp is much faster. The computation is simplest when the highest degree term of f has the form sumi=1naiXi2d, ai>0, i=1,...,n. The lower bounds for f established in [6] are obtained by evaluating the objective function of the geometric program at the appropriate feasible points.




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