Imaginary projections of polynomials

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2018.06.020zbMATH Open1408.14185arXiv1602.02008OpenAlexW2962698759MaRDI QIDQ1994130FDOQ1994130

Authors: Thorsten Jörgens, Thorsten Theobald, Timo de Wolff 

Publication date: 1 November 2018

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce the imaginary projection of a multivariate polynomial $finmathbbC[mathbfz]$ as the projection of the variety of $f$ onto its imaginary part, $mathcalI(f)=extIm(mathbfz),:,mathbfzinmathcalV(f)$. Since a polynomial $f$ is stable if and only if $mathcalI(f)capmathbb{R}_{>0}^n=emptyset$, the notion offers a novel geometric view underlying stability questions of polynomials. We show that the connected components of the complement of the closure of the imaginary projections are convex, thus opening a central connection to the theory of amoebas and coamoebas. Building upon this, the paper establishes structural properties of the components of the complement, such as lower bounds on their maximal number, proves a complete classification of the imaginary projections of quadratic polynomials and characterizes the limit directions for polynomials of arbitrary degree.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02008

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zbMATH Keywords

amoebaconvex algebraic geometryhyperbolic polynomialinterlacing zerosstable polynomialcomponent of the complementimaginary projection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Polynomials in real and complex fields: location of zeros (algebraic theorems) (12D10) Tropical geometry (14T99)

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