On real Waring decompositions of real binary forms

Abstract: The Waring Problem over polynomial rings asks how to decompose a homogeneous polynomial

p

of degree

d

as a finite sum of

d

-{th} powers of linear forms. In this work we give an algorithm to obtain a real Waring decomposition of any given real binary form

p

of length at most its degree. In fact, we construct a semialgebraic family of Waring decompositions for

p

. Some examples are shown to highlight the difference between the real and the complex case.

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