Do sums of squares dream of free resolutions?

DOI10.1137/16M1084560zbMATH Open1401.14225arXiv1607.03551MaRDI QIDQ5347299FDOQ5347299

Authors: Grigoriy Blekherman, Rainer Sinn, Mauricio Velasco 

Publication date: 23 May 2017

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We associate to a real projective variety $X$ two convex cones which are fundamental in real algebraic geometry: the cone $P_X$ of quadratic forms nonnegative on $X$, and the cone $Sigm{a}_X$ of sums of squares of linear forms. The dual cone $Sigm{a}_X^{a}st$ is a spectrahedron and we show that its convexity properties are closely related to homological properties of $X$. For instance, we show that all extreme rays of $Sigm{a}_X^{a}st$ have rank one if and only if X has Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity two. More generally, if $Sigm{a}_X^{a}st$ has an extreme ray of rank $p>1$, then $X$ does not satisfy the property $N_{2,p}$. We show that the converse also holds in a wide variety of situations: the smallest $p$ for which property $N_{2,p}$ does not hold is equal to the smallest rank of an extreme ray of $Sigm{a}_X^{a}st$ greater than one. These results allow us to generalize the work of Blekherman-Smith-Velasco on equality of nonnegative polynomials and sums of squares from irreducible varieties to reduced schemes and to classify all spectrahedral cones with only rank one extreme rays. Our results have applications to the positive semidefinite matrix completion problem and to the truncated moment problem on projective varieties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03551

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zbMATH Keywords

Castelnuovo-Mumford regularitysums of squaresfree resolutionsspectrahedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Syzygies, resolutions, complexes and commutative rings (13D02) Real algebraic sets (14P05) General convexity (52A99)

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