Maximal quadratic modules on *-rings.

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Abstract: We generalize the notion of and results on maximal proper quadratic modules from commutative unital rings to ast-rings and discuss the relation of this generalization to recent developments in noncommutative real algebraic geometry. The simplest example of a maximal proper quadratic module is the cone of all positive semidefinite complex matrices of a fixed dimension. We show that the support of a maximal proper quadratic module is the symmetric part of a prime ast-ideal, that every maximal proper quadratic module in a Noetherian ast-ring comes from a maximal proper quadratic module in a simple artinian ring with involution and that maximal proper quadratic modules satisfy an intersection theorem. As an application we obtain the following extension of Schm" udgen's Strict Positivstellensatz for the Weyl algebra: Let c be an element of the Weyl algebra mathcalW(d) which is not negative semidefinite in the Schr" odinger representation. It is shown that under some conditions there exists an integer k and elements r1,...,rkinmathcalW(d) such that sumj=1krjcrjast is a finite sum of hermitian squares. This result is not a proper generalization however because we don't have the bound kled.









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