Positivity certificates via integral representations

DOI10.1017/9781108877855.004zbMATH Open1492.14107arXiv1908.04191OpenAlexW2966929107MaRDI QIDQ5081880FDOQ5081880

Authors: Mateusz Michalek, Bernd Sturmfels, Khazhgali Kozhasov 

Publication date: 17 June 2022

Abstract: Complete monotonicity is a strong positivity property for real-valued functions on convex cones. It is certified by the kernel of the inverse Laplace transform. We study this for negative powers of hyperbolic polynomials. Here the certificate is the Riesz kernel in Garding's integral representation. The Riesz kernel is a hypergeometric function in the coefficients of the given polynomial. For monomials in linear forms, it is a Gel'fand-Aomoto hypergeometric function, related to volumes of polytopes. We establish complete monotonicity for sufficiently negative powers of elementary symmetric functions. We also show that small negative powers of these polynomials are not completely monotone, proving one direction of a conjecture by Scott and Sokal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04191

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real algebraic and real-analytic geometry (14P99) Computational real algebraic geometry (14Q30)

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