Signature pairs of positive polynomials

Publication date 11 February 2014

Abstract: A well-known theorem of Quillen says that if

is a bihomogeneous polynomial on

{m a t h b b C}^{n}

positive on the sphere, then there exists

d

such that

is a squared norm. We obtain effective bounds relating this

d

to the signature of

r

. We obtain the sharp bound for

d = 1

, and for

d > 1

we obtain a bound that is of the correct order as a function of

d

for fixed

n

. The current work adds to an extensive literature on positivity classes for real polynomials. The classes

P s i_{d}

of polynomials for which

is a squared norm interpolate between polynomials positive on the sphere and those that are Hermitian sums of squares.

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