Sums of squares and quadratic persistence on real projective varieties
Summary: We bound the Pythagoras number of a real projective subvariety: the smallest positive integer \(r\) such that every sum of squares of linear forms in its homogeneous coordinate ring is a sum of at most \(r\) squares. Enhancing existing methods, we exhibit three distinct upper bounds involving known invariants. In contrast, our lower bound depends on a new invariant of a projective subvariety called the quadratic persistence. Defined by projecting away from points, this numerical invariant is closely related to the linear syzygies of the variety. In addition, we classify the projective subvarieties of maximal and almost-maximal quadratic persistence, and determine their Pythagoras numbers.
- A new graph parameter related to bounded rank positive semidefinite matrix completions
- A nonlinear programming algorithm for solving semidefinite programs via low-rank factorization
- Analysis on some infinite modules, inner projection, and applications
- Computing graded Betti tables of toric surfaces
- Deterministic guarantees for Burer-Monteiro factorizations of smooth semidefinite programs
- Do sums of squares dream of free resolutions?
- Gap vectors of real projective varieties
- Gram spectrahedra
- Graph theory
- green's canonical syzygy conjecture for generic curves of odd genus
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2132158 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4053804 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 753805 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1860211 (Why is no real title available?)
- Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms
- Koszul cohomology and algebraic geometry
- Koszul cohomology and the geometry of projective varieties. Appendix: The nonvanishing of certain Koszul cohomology groups (by Mark Green and Robert Lazarsfeld)
- Lattice polygons and Green’s theorem
- Low-rank sum-of-squares representations on varieties of minimal degree
- Monomial Ideals
- On hypersurfaces containing projective varieties
- On the projective geometry of rational homogeneous varieties
- Power sums, Gorenstein algebras, and determinantal loci. With an appendix `The Gotzmann theorems and the Hilbert scheme' by Anthony Iarrobino and Steven L. Kleiman
- Projective invariants of quadratic embeddings
- Representation stability for syzygies of line bundles on Segre-Veronese varieties
- Restricting linear syzygies: algebra and geometry
- Sharp bounds for higher linear syzygies and classifications of projective varieties
- Small schemes and varieties of minimal degree
- Sum of squares length of real forms
- Sums of squares and varieties of minimal degree
- Syzygies of canonical curves and special linear series
- The Geometry of Syzygies
- The gonality conjecture on syzygies of algebraic curves of large degree
- Toric varieties
- Treewidth of the Kneser graph and the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem
- Éléments de géométrie algébrique. IV: Étude locale des schémas et des morphismes de schémas. (Troisième partie). Rédigé avec la colloboration de J. Dieudonné
This page was built for publication: Sums of squares and quadratic persistence on real projective varieties
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2119380)
