Strong nonnegativity and sums of squares on real varieties

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2012.09.007zbMATH Open1299.14045arXiv1101.0826OpenAlexW2080483477MaRDI QIDQ2376539FDOQ2376539

Authors: Mohamed Omar, Brian Osserman 

Publication date: 24 June 2013

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by scheme theory, we introduce strong nonnegativity on real varieties, which has the property that a sum of squares is strongly nonnegative. We show that this algebraic property is equivalent to nonnegativity for nonsingular real varieties. Moreover, for singular varieties, we reprove and generalize obstructions of Gouveia and Netzer to the convergence of the theta body hierarchy of convex bodies approximating the convex hull of a real variety.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0826

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zbMATH Keywords

Sums of squaresStrong negativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semidefinite programming (90C22) Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Real algebra (13J30)

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