Bounds on Hilbert functions with application to convexity

Publication date 5 April 2023

Abstract: Given a subspace

U s u b s e t m a t h b b C [x_{1}, d o t s, x_{n}]_{d}

we consider the closure of the image of the rational map

m a t h b b P^{n - 1} d a s h r i g h t a r r o w m a t h b b P^{d i m U - 1}

given by

U

. Its coordinate ring is isomorphic to

where

U^{i}

is the degree

i

component. We consider the Hilbert function of this algebra in the case where

U

contains a regular sequence, equivalently the map is a morphism, and find lower bounds for the dimension of the degree 2 component. We apply our bounds to study the boundary structure of certain convex sets, called Gram spectrahedra, which are linked to sum of squares representations of non-negative polynomials.

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