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Paula Escorcielo

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arXiv2021

A few more extensions of Putinar's Positivstellensatz to non-compact sets

We extend previous results about Putinar's Positivstellensatz for cylinders of type $S \times {\mathbb R}$ to sets of type $S \times {\mathbb R}^r$ in some special cases taking into account $r$ and the degree of the polynomial with respect to the variables moving in ${\mathbb R}^r$ (this is to say, in the non-bounded directions). These special cases are in correspondence with the ones where the equality between the cone of non-negative polynomials and the cone of sums of squares holds. Degree bounds are provided.

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arXiv2020

On sum of squares certificates of non-negativity on a strip

A well-known result of Murray Marshall states that every $f \in \mathbb{R} [X,Y]$ non-negative on the strip $[0,1] \times \mathbb{R}$ can be written as $f= σ_0 + σ_1 X(1-X)$ with $σ_0, σ_1$ sums of squares in $\mathbb{R} [X,Y]$. In this work, we present a few results concerning this representation in particular cases. First, under the assumption ${\rm deg}_Y f \leq 2$, by characterizing the extreme rays of a suitable cone, we obtain a degree bound for each term. Then, we consider the case of $f$ positive on $[0,1] \times \mathbb{R}$ and non-vanishing at infinity, and we show again a degree bound for each term, coming from a constructive method to obtain the sum of squares representation. Finally, we show that this constructive method also works in the case of $f$ having only a finite number of zeros, all of them lying on the boundary of the strip, and such that $\frac{\partial f}{\partial X}$ does not vanish at any of them.

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arXiv2020

A version of Putinar's Positivstellensatz for cylinders

We prove that, under some additional assumption, Putinar's Positivstellensatz holds on cylinders of type $S \times {\mathbb R}$ with $S = \{x \in {\mathbb R}^n | g_1(x) \ge 0, ..., g_s(x) \ge 0\}$ such that the quadratic module generated by $g_1, ..., g_s$ in ${\mathbb R}[X_1, ..., X_n]$ is archimedean, and we provide a degree bound for the representation of a polynomial $f \in {\mathbb R}[X_1, ..., X_n, Y]$ which is positive on $S \times {\mathbb R}$ as an explicit element of the quadratic module generated by $g_1, ..., g_s$ in ${\mathbb R}[X_1, ..., X_n, Y]$. We also include an example to show that an additional assumption is necessary for Putinar's Positivstellensatz to hold on cylinders of this type.

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arXiv2016

On the Davenport-Mahler bound

We prove that the Davenport-Mahler bound holds for arbitrary graphs with vertices on the set of roots of a given univariate polynomial with complex coefficients.

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