Pfister’s theorem fails in the Hermitian case

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-10841-4zbMath1309.12001arXiv1010.3215MaRDI QIDQ5389377

John P. D'Angelo, Jiří Lebl

Publication date: 26 April 2012

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3215

zbMATH Keywords

sums of squares; Hermitian forms; Hilbert's 17-th problem; Hermitian length; Huang lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

14P05: Real algebraic sets

12D15: Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.)

15B57: Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices

32V15: CR manifolds as boundaries of domains

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