arXiv · 2508.13850
Non-negative polynomials on generalized elliptic curves
Abstract
We study the cone of non-negative polynomials on generalized elliptic curves. We show that the zero set of every extreme ray has dense real points. If a generalized elliptic curve is embedded via a complete linear system, then we show that the convex hull of its real points (taken inside any affine chart containing all real points) is a spectrahedron. On the way, we generalize a result by Geyer--Martens on 2-torsion points in the Picard group of smooth real curves (of arbitrary genus) to possibly singular and reducible ones.
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Mario Kummer, Aljaž Zalar. 2025-08-19. Non-negative polynomials on generalized elliptic curves. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13850
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