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A version of Putinar's Positivstellensatz for cylinders

Algebraic Geometry 2020-04-22 v2

Abstract

We prove that, under some additional assumption, Putinar's Positivstellensatz holds on cylinders of type S×RS \times {\mathbb R} with S={xRng1(x)0,...,gs(x)0}S = \{x \in {\mathbb R}^n | g_1(x) \ge 0, ..., g_s(x) \ge 0\} such that the quadratic module generated by g1,...,gsg_1, ..., g_s in R[X1,...,Xn]{\mathbb R}[X_1, ..., X_n] is archimedean, and we provide a degree bound for the representation of a polynomial fR[X1,...,Xn,Y]f \in {\mathbb R}[X_1, ..., X_n, Y] which is positive on S×RS \times {\mathbb R} as an explicit element of the quadratic module generated by g1,...,gsg_1, ..., g_s in R[X1,...,Xn,Y]{\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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@article{arxiv.1811.03586,
  title  = {A version of Putinar's Positivstellensatz for cylinders},
  author = {Paula Escorcielo and Daniel Perrucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03586},
  year   = {2020}
}

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